and “I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to have been born two or three centuries hence. and ” — Ben FranklinWas Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant or a cunning chameleon? A hard-headed entrepreneur or an opportunistic privateer? A devoted family man or a notorious womanizer? A scientist and inventor or a hoaxer and self promoter? A believer or a heretic? The first civilized American or the most dangerous man in America?Read this book, and you decide!In The Greatest American, Dr. Mark Skousen– and “America’s Economist and ” and a direct descendant of the old man–reveals many new features and little-known facts about Ben Franklin, such as:- The surprising benefits of inflation to pay for the American Revolution.- How the War of Independence transformed him from a religious heretic to a believing theist.- Why he hated party politics.- How he changed his mind about slavery and became a devote abolitionist.- The truth about his love affairs with women. Did he really abandon his wife Deborah, or did she abandon him?- Why he never applied for any patents for his famous inventions.- Why George Washington loved Franklin and John Adams despised him.- Why he turned against his beloved son, William, and never forgave him.- His preference for private welfare and charities rather than state-run social programs and welfare.Benjamin Franklin was the oldest of the founding fathers — he was indeed a whole generation ahead of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — and yet he was the most forward-looking of the group and the most modern of the founders. The Greatest American shows just how much of an impact Benjamin Franklin had on American politics and daily life.

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