Benjamin Franklin By Edmund Morgan Sparknotes

In the book Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Morgan, we explore the life and accomplishments of an American legend named Benjamin Franklin. Edmund Morgan is certainly in favor of all that Benjamin Franklin has discovered and accomplished in his eighty-four years of life on earth. This book truly enriches the readers’ appreciation for someone so underappreciated in our education system yet so heavily involved with the way America was built and how it remains today. Edmund Morgan truly gives such a deep understanding of who Benjamin Franklin was inside and out. Edmund Morgan use of sources is lacking a bit. If he did use any sources they were not credited to the author in this exact book. Morgan was a professor at Yale so I imagine that the majority of his knowledge was from his exquisite educational background throughout the years in American history and the people that wrote it. He gives credit solely to the artists that have images or paintings of Franklin and his
Morgan’s use of language and detail was really intriguing and invigorating. He acknowledged all the greatest achievements of Franklin while still appreciating the little details of his life. We start off in the middle and the end of Franklin’s life and work somewhat backward into his life and all the greatness we brought to the newly independent country. He was a very involved founding father who signed all four founding documents and Morgan does such a generous amount of glorifying Benjamin’s role in making this country what it is. I would recommend this book to anyone seeking a well–rounded rendition of Benjamin Franklin’s life. The value of this book is high due to Morgan’s educational background and deep knowledge on the subject of American history. He put such great detail into the smaller parts of Benjamin Franklin’s life like his death and the other aspects of his life that don’t directly relate to his accomplishments as an