Introduction: What Benjamin Franklin means for our times / Walter Isaacson

The life of Benjamin Franklin / J.A. Leo Lemay

Benjamin Franklin, printer / James N. Green

Benjamin Franklin, civic improver / Billy G. Smith

Benjamin Franklin at home / Page Talbott

Benjamin Franklin's science / E. Philip Krider

Benjamin Franklin, pragmatic visionary: politician, diplomat, statesman / Robert Middlekauff

The Printer at Passy / Ellen R. Cohn

At the end, an abolitionist? / Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner

The end of his pragmatism / Edmund S. Morgan.