A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

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Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and novels such as Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. See, for example, Volker Berghahn, America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone between ...