Middlekauff — Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies, Robert Middlekauff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

Morgan, Franklin — Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).

Morgan, Devious — The Devious Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London, David Morgan (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996).

Parton — Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, James Parton, 2 volumes (New York: Mason Brothers, 1865).

PMHB — Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

Randall — A Little Revenge, Willard Sterne Randall (New York: William Morrow, 1984).

Sanford — Benjamin Franklin and the American Character, под редакцией Charles Sanford (Boston: Heath, 1955).

Sappenfield — A Sweet Instruction: Franklin’s Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship, James Sappenfield (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973).

Schoenbrun — Triumph in Paris, David Schoenbrun (New York: Harper & Row, 1976).

Skemp William — William Franklin, Sheila Skemp (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Skemp Benjamin — Benjamin and William Franklin, Sheila Skemp (New York: St. Martin’s, 1994).

Smith — Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic, Jeffery A. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Stourzh — Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy, Gerald Stourzh (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954).

Tourtellot — Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, the Boston Years, Arthur Tourtellot (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1977).

Van Doren — Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren (New York: Viking, 1938). Нумерация страниц такая же, как в издании Penguin USA, 1991, и в последующих репринтных изданиях.

Walters — Benjamin Franklin and His Gods, Kerry S. Walters (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).

Wright — Franklin of Philadelphia, Esmond Wright (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986).

Уолтер Айзексон является в настоящее время ректором Aspen Institute. В прошлом занимал должности председателя совета директоров и исполнительного директора CNN и главного редактора журнала Time. Автор Kissinger: A Biography, и соавтор (вместе с Ивеном Томасом) The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.