Benjamin Franklin Leadership Lessons: 30 Day Reader

As the United States arrives at its Semiquincentennial, 30 Days with Benjamin Franklin offers a daily companion drawn from Franklin’s own primary sources — the Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanack, the Paris correspondence, the Convention speeches. Across thirty days the reader walks the arc of his life: from a runaway apprentice with three rolls in Philadelphia, to the printer who founded the first subscription library; from the experimentalist who refused to patent the lightning rod, to thediplomat whose treaty with France saved the Revolution; from the eighty-one-year-old who asked his fellow delegates to doubt a little of his own infallibility, to the dying man whose last public act was a petition asking Congress to remove slavery from the American character.Each entry pairs a verified Franklin quotation with its precise citation, a paragraph of historical context, a leadership reflection, and a Practice for the Day. The book does not flinch from Franklin’s failings — but it refuses to discard what he bequeathed to a struggling republic. Love him or hate him, there is no USA without Franklin Read more