“At noon today, in a nod to the 120th meeting of the American Historical Association, which has been raising Center City’s tweed factor all week, the National Constitution Center will host three celebratory Ben Franklin biographers: Gordon Wood, Walter Isaacson and Stacy Schiff.
“All three would display posters of Philadelphia’s 300th Birthday Boy on their dorm-room walls if they still had dorm-room walls.”
Carlin Romano in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Humph. What’s wrong with putting up posters in your office? OK, so Wood would have his framed and matted, Isaacson would draw on a beard and Schiff would use fun-tac…
(eeks – I’ve read all three of them.)
(Why no Edmund Morgan or H.W. Brands? Their biographies are much better.)
Brands is mentioned in the article. Morgan is NewMexiKen’s self-assigned reading for today, to honor Franklin’s 300th birthday.