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As America enters the second Trump era, these 6 Benjamin Franklin lessons offer a roadmap for healing America’s divisions.

In the concluding chapter of “Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist,” Richard Munson summarizes the many Franklins that have been offered up to the reading public over the years.

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten," he said in "Poor Richard's Almanack," "either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin ...