FRANKLINLAND

A kite in a storm becomes the perfect metaphor for the life of Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father, inventor, visionary, and dad. In this fast-paced, comically insightful theatrical dialogue, narrators Gregory Harrison and Larry Powell have a wonderful time sparring as the brilliant, abrasive, confident Franklin and his not-so-confident illegitimate son, William. When Benjamin offers his son the stewardship of his fanciful scientist/artist colony, Franklinland, Powell answers with perfect petulance that King George III has already offered him the governorship of New Jersey. (That’s all true.) As the American Revolution approaches, the rocky relationship between father and son becomes a metaphor for a new country cutting ties with the old. A marvelously performed entertaining romp through history. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2022 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2022]