Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2025

A review of Ken Burns’ “Benjamin Franklin” (PBS)

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Long before I watched this film, I watched another PBS documentary about  Benjamin Franklin . This earlier film was by Muffie Meyer, who has...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

A review of “The Story of Electricity” (audiobook)

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We tend to associate the story of electricity with  Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb . Alternatively, we tend to associate it with  Be...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Algernon Sidney influenced the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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“This book contains all the malice, and revenge, and treason, that mankind can be guilty of: It fixes the sole power in the parliament and t...
Friday, September 17, 2021

A review of “The Constitutional Convention” (audiobook)

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“Resolved. that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in t...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

A review of “The Declaration of Independence” (audiobook)

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“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

A review of Muffie Meyer’s “Benjamin Franklin” (PBS)

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"Neither of the two Parties [France or America] shall conclude either Truce or Peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent o...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

A review of “A More Perfect Union: America Becomes A Nation”

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"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union , establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Benjamin Franklin: Renaissance Man

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"I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody ... perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. I...
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