He has the authority to deliver historical facts and the enthusiasm to keep listeners interested. All things considered, Gaines is a good match for the material. His delivery of Isaacson's factual yet fascinating biography is informative and friendly with an instructional yet casual tone, like that of a gregarious narrator of an educational film. Three-time Tony winner Gaines has an obvious interest and affinity for the material. The most intriguing thing he invented, and continued to reinvent, according to Isaacson, was himself. At once a scientist, craftsman, writer, publisher, comic, sage, ladies' man, statesman, diplomat and inventor, Franklin not only wore many hats, but in many cases, did not have an equal. Isaacson's ( Kissinger) biography does much to remind us of Franklin's amazing depth and breadth. Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a one-hundred-dollar bill.
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