Franklin's is a good life story and Zall puts it together well.
~Barbara Oberg
A strikingly revealing, unvarnished portrait of one of our most beloved and seemingly benign Founding Fathers.
~Booklist
This edition and the comparison of texts make one of America's most fascinating men yet more fascinating.
~Choice
Does an excellent job of allowing Franklin's own words to reveal the major events and emotions in his life.
~Library Journal
Shows us a rawer, franker, more human and vulnerable Franklin.
~Louisville Courier-Journal
A refreshing take on one of the most studied classics in American literature, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Zall provides a new approach to understanding the Founding Father's famous memoir... by filling in the many lacunae in the text and providing what Franklin never got to: the end of the story.
~Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Few scholars equal Zall in knowledge and understanding of Franklin's works.an excellent book.
~Robert Middlekauff
Since Franklin completed [his autobiography] in his middle 40s, with over four more decades of a busy and important life ahead of him, the work was incomplete. No longer. Zall... begins where Franklin left off, using only authentic Franklin notes.
~USA Today Magazine
Leave it to Paul M. Zall, preeminent research scholar, intellectual, and historian, to present Benjamin Franklin in an innovative style that goes beyond a simple biography.... Gives us new insight into the internal struggles of a truly great American.
~White House Studies
American history enthusiasts will truly enjoy the intimate portrait of an American icon with Paul M. Zall's excellent biography.
~WTBF Radio