His Autobiography is a classic of the genre and of American letters.
Of fine books and essays on Franklin there has been no shortage, but far and away the best remains Franklin’s own. Self-made and self-taught, eminently practical yet endlessly curious, a philanthropist who took a personal interest in every project he supported, a prolific inventor and discoverer, the original community organizer and a democratic statesman without parallel in the history of American diplomacy, he is also the Founder who perhaps has the most to teach us today, both about the art of living and about restoring civility to our public sphere and a principled prudence to our foreign policy.
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