True Benjamin Franklin

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.