Benjamin Franklin: Daring the Lightning

Benjamin Franklin - a printer by trade and an inventor, politician, diplomat, and scientist by fame – had a hand, mind, and heart in the shaping of the United States. One of seventeen children of a Boston candlemaker, he had only one year of formal schooling. This short-form book by historians Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra tells the story of the extraordinary man whose electric personality still lights the world.