The Greatest American by Mark Skousen instant download

The Greatest American by Mark Skousen instant download

"I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to have been born two or three centuries hence." — Ben Franklin
Was Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant or a cunning chameleon? A hard-headed entrepreneur or an opportunistic privateer? A devoted family man or a notorious womanizer? A scientist and inventor or a hoaxer and self promoter? A believer or a heretic? The first civilized American or the most dangerous man in America?
Read this book, and you decide!
In The Greatest American, Dr. Mark Skousen—"America's Economist" and a direct descendant of the old man—reveals many new features and little-known facts about Ben Franklin, such as:
- Why Franklin was a free trader: "No nation was ever ruined by trade."
- The surprising benefits of inflation to pay for the American Revolution.
- How the War of Independence transformed him from a religious heretic to a believing theist.
- Why he...