EVENT DETAILS
Author Nick Bunker, in conversation with Carol Berkin, explores Benjamin Franklin’s early life as a complex, driven young man who would go on to become the archetype of American ingenuity. Discover how the brilliant but flawed Founding Father got his start.
Nick Bunker is the author of Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity. Carol Berkin (moderator) is Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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