Abstract
Over the years Benjamin Franklin has been the subject of countless biographies. As one of America's leading founding fathers, his popularity as a historical subject should not surprise us; he was, after all, a significant figure who embodied the values of not only the eighteenth century but America's future. Franklin, in other words, personified the ideals of free enterprise found in nineteenth and twentieth-century America—the possibility of great achievement and worldly success through natural ability and hard work, or what we call “the American dream.” His contributions to science, politics, and civic life have been applauded by each succeeding generation, and with the arrival of the 2006 Franklin tercentenary, we are reminded of them once again. Yet there is another—more human—side of this great revolutionary hero, which is equally interesting but less well known to the public: Franklin the husband and father. When reading Franklin's Autobiography, one gets...
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