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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity

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In this new account of Franklin’s early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.

From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has At all times appeared the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes at the back of the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. At all times looking to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but incorrect human being, produced from the conflicts of an age of slavery in addition to reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia, as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this may be a story about Franklin’s forebears: the talented circle of relatives of English craftsmen who produced The us’s favorite genius.

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