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Benjamin Franklin at 300 [35min]

Next Tuesday marks the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer, postmaster, diplomat, statesman and inventor. Guests: HW Brands, author, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and Dickson, Allen, Anderson centennial professor, Department of History, University of Texas; and Page Talbott, associate director and chief curator of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary editor and an author of Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"