weekly quote #5: Walter Isaacson October 23, 2007
Posted by ocmpoma in : other , trackbackI just finished reading Mr Isaacson’s biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Overall I found it good in its pacing, detail, and perspective, although heavy-handed in its reverence of the founding and especially of the Constitutional Convention in the Philadelphia summer of 1787.
But, I find I must agree with Mr Isaacson’s assessment of Franklin’s key strength in that convention, found on page 491 of my edition, in “Conclusions”:
“Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.”
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