Fêting Our Frisky Founding Father as America’s 250th Birthday Nears
Ben Franklin ranks as a genius like Leonardo, but wackier.
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LENORE SKENAZY
New York, New York
Lenore Skenazy is a Columnist for the Sun.
Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and author of “Has the World Gone Skenazy?”
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