The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin.(Review)

The Historian | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin. By Douglas Anderson. (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 261. $39.95.)

The author, an American literature scholar, explores how Benjamin Franklin, avidly devouring books during his adolescence and young adulthood, experienced "radical enlightenments" and later manifested these in his writing and public activities. Anderson's study of Franklin's intellectual life covers the period from his 1722 Silence Dogood essays to his publication of Poor Richard Improved in 1757. The author ...

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