Summary: Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the early American past because he pursued many interests: literature, poetry, science, business, philosophy, philanthropy, and politics. But one aspect of Franklin’s life has gone largely unstudied: his childhood and early life. Nick Bunker, author of Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity, joins us to explore Franklin’s early life and how family, childhood, and youthful experiences shaped him as a scientist and diplomat.
