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Apr 12, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity was an interesting book. Mr. Franklin has always been on my list of dead people in history that I’d love to meet. Here is yet another example of why he's on that list. I'd love to observe firsthand how his mind ...
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Apr 12, 2022 · Meyer’s book sheds fascinating light on an icon who has been reduced to a symbol. A portrait of the great revolutionary leader as a working-class populist. Like the other Founding Fathers, writes historian Meyer, Benjamin Franklin was morally compromised: He pledged himself to the cause of liberty, yet he kept slaves throughout his life.
Aug 31, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet. Michael Meyer (New York, New York: Harper Collins, 2022) August 31, 2022. By Daniel X Matz. Philanthropy is about betting on the future. And while certainly not unique to America, American philanthropy has a peculiar and enduring capacity to shape our world and the lives of generations hence.
Author Michael Meyer, on his book, Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity, which takes on the incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current ...
Oct 9, 2022 · Franklin saw it as a civic virtue as well, essential for a country that valued limited government. In many ways, as Michael Meyer shows in “Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet,” Franklin was the ...
Apr 12, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet is a surprising and important read that follows the financial and cultural ripples caused by the founding father's death, from the surprising revelations that appear in his will right up to the present day. Full of rich detail and deftly-rendered twists and turns, this is a superb read that will make you see Franklin, and our American culture today, in an entirely ...
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