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Benjamin Franklin
By Edmund S. Morgan
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Yale University Press, 339 pages, $24.95
As the stovepipe hat and cherry tree dominate this Presidents’ Day weekend, turn to this gem of a biography of Ben Franklin–scientist, inventor, diplomat–written by one of the great authorities on Colonial America. With author Edmund Morgan making the introduction, we meet a man “with a wisdom about himself that comes only to the great of heart.”