The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics)

This book was read for a lifelong learning class that I was taking on "Benjamin Franklin". Excellent read!

I give this book a five, not just because I got the product on time, but mostly because it is an American patriot's own account of his life...worth the price of admission.

A surprisingly challenging book and, just respect, mad respect. All hail B. Franklin, Printer of Philadelphia!My new favorite: Dialogue Between Franklin and the GoutEvery time I think I know everything about him, I learn something new. For example, did you know that Benjamin Franklin loved swimming, that he was a leader in swimming education, and that he invented kiteboarding? He chased a whirlwind on his horse until a tree fell nearby "alerting him of the danger." He invented Daylight Savings Time? He exchanged letters with David Hume? It just goes on and on.A huge blast of life radiates from these writings, 300 years after their composition.

What an enlightened mind. We could do with a few more like him around the world nowadays - especially in the USA!