title: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
author:  Benjamin Franklin 
description: "Edmund Morgan, the most distinguished of Benjamin Franklin's scholars and fans, has put together a glorious compendium of his writings that reminds us how delightful and witty he was. You will be mesmerized-and find out what that word really means!"-Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life"<br /><br />"A fine collection, greatly enhanced by Morgan's sprightly and readable introductions."-Gordon S. Wood, Brown University<br /> <br /><br /><br />"What James Boswell did for Samuel Johnson, Edmund Morgan has now done for Benjamin Franklin, here allowing us into a conversation that brings the great man to life in all his Protean splendor."-Joseph J. Ellis, author of "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation"" "<br /><br />"Of all the truly great American historians, Edmund S. Morgan comes closest to capturing the spirit of Benjamin Franklin's prose in his own work: enlightening, plain, witty, democratic, cosmopolitan, and crafty in the best sense of the word. Here he arranges an expert's tour through Franklin's writings, offering readers a continual Christmas."-Sean Wilentz, author of "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln"
zlib_text: Not your usual founding father.
  
  [To view this image, refer to  
  the print version of this title.] 
   
   
   
  
  Not your usual
  founding father.
  Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
  Edited by Edmund S. Morgan
  Yale university press, new haven and london.
  
  Copyright ∫ 2006 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This
  book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including
  illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by
  Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by
  reviewers for the public press), without written permission
  from the publishers.
  Designed by Nancy Ovedovitz and set in Monotype Fournier
  by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. and printed in the United States
  of America by R. R. Donnelley & Sons.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Franklin, Benjamin, 1706–1790.
  Not your usual founding father : selected readings from
  Benjamin Franklin / edited by Edmund S. Morgan.
  p. cm.
  Includes index.
  isbn-13: 978-0-300-11394-5 (alk. paper)
  isbn-10: 0-300-