Benjamin Franklin and his readers.(The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin)(Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America)(The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Journalist, 1706-1730)(Benjamin Franklin)(Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology)(A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America)(Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution)(The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin)(The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747)(Book review)

Early American Literature | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

--Poor Richard, 1734

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. H. W. BRANDS. New York: Doubleday/Anchor Books, 2000. 759 PP.

Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America. PHILIP DRAY. New York: Random House: 2005. 279 pp.

The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730 and Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747. J. A. LEO LEMAY. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 462 pp., 560 pp.

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