Benjamin Franklin and the Self-Made Man: Making America

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and publisher. But he is best remembered for being the guiding spirit behind the founding of the United States. Dinesh D’Souza describes the key role Franklin played in America’s beginning. This episode is part of a 5-part series. Click here to watch the entire Making America series: https://l.prageru.com/watch Download the PragerU app today: https://www.prageru.com/join

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Prager U 5 Minute Podcast.
0:05.8	I'm Chris Barber.
0:07.0	This week we've got a special five part series lined up for you called Making America,
0:10.8	where we'll cover five of the most critical players who helped found this great nation.
0:15.6	But first, did you know that Prager U has an app?
0:18.1	Now you can upgrade your viewing experience and take our videos everywhere you go.
0:22.6	So after the show today, head on over to our website at PragerU.com, forward slash
0:27.1	join and download the Prager U app today.
0:30.3	The link is in the description of this podcast.
0:33.4	Now to today's episode.
0:41.2	Self-made men existed before America, but they were rare.
0:46.4	After the American Revolution, they became much more common.
0:49.9	They came from everywhere.
0:51.5	They are still coming.
0:53.4	Benjamin Franklin was and remains the prototype.
0:58.4	One of his recent biographers, Walter Isaacson, put it this way, he was the most accomplished
1:03.4	American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would
1:09.4	become.
1:11.4	Franklin's life, no less than his ideas, conveyed the indomitable spirit of both invention
1:16.7	and, just as important, self-invention that define Americans and make them almost instantly
1:22.5	distinguishable even today by people around the world.
1:26.8	Born in Boston in 1705, the youngest son in a family of 17 children, Franklin was at
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