Franklin was far from being the most devoted of husbands. That child, William, would later become governor of New Jersey and stayed loyal to Britain during the Revolution. Although Franklin became an abolitionist at the end of his life (he died in 1790), he had owned a half-dozen enslaved people. “There’s a lot in Franklin that makes you flinch,” Isaacson says. It does not fail to address Franklin’s darker, less attractive side.
His 8½ years as emissary in Paris during the Revolution helped create the alliance with France that ensured American victory.īurns’s film fails to address one very obvious question: When did the man ever sleep?
He is one of just six men to have signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He started the first lending library in America and founded what would become the University of Pennsylvania. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Libraryįranklin was the first to chart the Gulf Stream. Drawings from Benjamin Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity," 1751.
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