Synopsis:
To most Americans, Benjamin Franklin is remembered as a flyer of kites in storms, a quaint, somewhat eccentric gadgeteer, and the author of folky witticisms. But in his time, he was perhaps the most internationally renowned of America's founding fathers. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CITIZEN OF THE WORLD reveals all the facets of this remarkable man--a man of science, a man of letters, a politician and diplomat, the son of a Boston soap boiler who through intelligence, talent and industry, rose to become a figure whom many have called the first citizen of the Eighteenth Century.