Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the "True Benjamin Franklin .]" Of Franklin, he says that the "human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light .]" Fisher's book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin's influence on American culture.
Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the "True Benjamin Frank...