Being Benjamin Franklin

ROBERT HUBER / TIME

The Vision Thing
In Poor Richard's Almanac, Franklin wrote, "There is a difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him." Archbold has spent three decades honing his version of a Franklin that is both historically accurate and able to blend the real Ben's witticisms and ideas with the issues of today

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