A conversation about Benjamin Franklin

with Edmund Morgan
in Books
on Monday, October 21, 2002 * * * * *

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Also, author Edmund Morgan, professor Emeritus at Yale, discusses his latest book, a biography of Benjamin Franklin. Morgan discusses the challenges of capturing the enigmatic Franklin whose natural impulses were so hard to distinguish from his principles.

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early America
biography
diplomat
American History
Benjamin Franklin
Edmund Morgan
founding fathers
France

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    1. writersblock25  12/06/2010 02:04 AM Report

      Morgan seems like a wise and very friendly (almost avuncular) historian, a kind of scholar that is unfortunately in short supply.