NOTE: This event is SOLD OUT. A limited number of tickets may be available at the box office one half hour before the event.A Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Event
Three of Ben Franklin’s most prominent, recent biographers participate in a public forum at the National Constitution Center. The participants are:
- Walter Isaacson: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Gordon Wood: The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- Stacy Schiff: A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
- Richard Beeman, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the National Constitution Center Board of Trustees will introduce the program.
Another Franklin author, Jim Lehrer, who wrote The Franklin Affair and is anchor of PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer will moderate.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America
The Franklin Affair
Book sale and signing at the event thanks to The Joseph Fox Bookshop, 1724 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Ben Franklin 300
This program is part of the National Constitution Center's Benjamin Franklin
Legacy Series.
