Posts from December 2019

“Sincerity, Honesty, Integrity”: Self-Made Religion in the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

If like me you have annual reading goals, you probably struggle to decide which books are worth your precious time. It’s not my custom to elect books at random, but after my 18-month old daughter Sophia grabbed a thin, 1955 used copy of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography off the shelf, I took her to the task. The Autobiography is not your typical first-person…