Poor Richard's Lament: A Most Timely Tale

What if Ben Franklin came back to life? What if everything depended on it?

Poor Richard's Lament is "A re-imagining of Benjamin Franklin you will not soon forget..." says Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Steve Jobs. But this is also more than a re-imagining of Franklin. It is a re-imagining of America itself. Where did the cultural legacy of Ben Franklin go wrong? We come to understand this, even as Franklin himself comes to self-realization in this book, during his contentious 'celestial trial' and during his dramatic reintroduction into 21st-century America. 

Interwoven into Ben's story is a second, beginning in the red-carpeted parlors of the West Wing of the White House and ending in the blood-stained streets of West Philadelphia. Eventually, the parallel stories collide, like massive tectonic plates, in a stunning series of shocks and aftershocks. What emerges is the opportunity for a profound understanding of our culture and the chance for a better country.