A Book Review I Cannot Ignore
Steve Sailer is reading H. W. Brands' biography of Benjamin Franklin. It sounds very compelling, and I suspect it will justify his post title, "Most successful man in history".Franklin's life has a comic aspect (in both the Shakespearean sense of turning out happily and in the absurdist sense of the improbability of it all) in that he's successful at practically all the multitudinous projects he turns his hand to. Franklin figured out as an adolescent that he was superior to practically everybody he met, so he'd better be as funny, modest, and nice to people as possible or they'd get mad at him for being better than them.Next stop - Toronto Public Library website!
posted by Alan Adamson @ 4:51 AM
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