Completed Brand's The First American

I finished HW Brands The First American on the life of Benjamin Franklin.  What a wonderful book on a singularly amazing persona of the American Independence Movement. Brands gives a wonderful sketch of Franklin's life from childhood through his death, taken year by year.  Full of stories, wit, autobiographical input as well as other first person accounts of interactions, the book gives compelling case not only for Franklin as the most important American that lived, but also for the inevitability of the Revolutionary War.  I hope you will peruse it at your leisure.  I learned much about the man and the times which I don't recall ever having been taught in school.