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...seven days a week at 11 a.m. (he usually gets there at 10:30), Archbold walks over to Franklin Court, where Franklin's house once stood and a museum now does, sits on a bench under a mulberry tree as Franklin did and talks to people. Especially the womenfolk. This morning he uses the classic "If you ladies have any questions, the answer is yes." Being Franklin is a whole lot more fun than being John Adams...
...date with a local historian. He says he plans to change into his street clothes before dinner, but last week, on a date with another woman, he showed up in the buckle shoes. He steps into his Subaru station wagon to call his date, since he doesn't want Franklin to be seen in public with a cell phone. In addition to having the anachronistic phone, Archbold checks his e-mail regularly and has a website, ben1776.com "Despite what people may think, I don't live in a place where I use only candles and have Colonial furniture," he says...
...accident that the Benjamin Franklin you see on our cover is portrayed as a kind of action hero. Of all the founding fathers, he was early America's boldest intellectual adventurer, making history in every realm from science to business to statesmanship. "My goal," says artist Michael Deas, who painted the cover, "was to present Franklin as a vigorous, flesh-and-blood person, not the somewhat frumpy figure we see on the face of a $100 bill." During the 84 years of his amazing life, it was a rare moment that Franklin, young or old, wasn't hatching an innovation...
...scientific and social pioneer, Franklin was no less intrepid than the explorers. "Every generation should look anew at Franklin," says Walter Isaacson, my predecessor as managing editor of TIME and the author of a splendid new biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. "He speaks to us in a contemporary way, and we can learn a lot about our own values by the way we see them reflected in Franklin." In an adaptation from his book, Walter explores Franklin's seven revolutionary ideals in a way that offers remarkable resonance with today's headlines...
...Franklin's life had profoundly varying chapters. Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer Stacy Schiff, who is writing a book on Franklin's years as emissary to France, tells how America's first Renaissance man charmed the French into becoming an indispensable source of money and military might in the war for independence. "We wouldn't have a country today were it not for France and the wizardry of Franklin," she says. Author Claude-Anne Lopez, who writes for us about the women in Franklin's life, began her long career as a Franklin expert by translating his correspondence from French to English...