The biography of Benjamin Franklin
The New York Sun has posted the entertaining review by biographer Carl Rollyson of the first two volumes of a projected seven-volume biography of Benjamin Franklin by J.A. Leo Lemay: "An unfashionably epic biography." Rollyson writes:
A seven-volume biography may conjure up visions of tedious detail, but such is not the case, for two reasons: Mr. Lemay's prose is well-paced, and he intrigues even seasoned students of Franklin with new details and - even better - "new attributions," delightful additions to the Franklin canon that include public letters, essays, satires, and speeches.In Mr. Lemay's volumes, Franklin emerges more than ever as the first major American author.
