The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin Psychology and a nutrition plan designed

and a nutrition plan designed to deliver maximum results

will appear in 2009 from Norton

renew the possibility of a poetry that is genuinely urgent

do the proposed theories really work when their principles are put into practice

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin Psychology and a nutrition plan designedBenjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is ''no one's contemporary . . . Blending elements of the fifteenth century spiritual discipline of Thomas Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on the historical imagination of his readers demands that are inevitably slighted by writers who emphasize only