I'm reading The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin for a class and it's basically just a retelling of his autobiography with other relevant quotes put in (like John Adams). It's a pretty good read. It's interesting how he went from being enamored with London to despising British rule over the colonies.

I read a collection of his written works called "Fart Proudly". It was pretty damn fantastic. It takes a truly gifted writer to still be funny after two hundred and forty years.

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Well he probably changed his mind once he met good ol' Tom Paine.

He grew up in a town that held annual hangings of poor thieves. London's answer to the circus I suppose.