True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

Every empire begins with a child. This vivid historical portrait traces the footsteps of young Benjamin Franklin through colonial Boston's cobblestone streets, revealing the seeds of the man who would become a printer, inventor, diplomat, and founding father. Born the fifteenth of seventeen children to a humble candle-maker, young Benjamin inherits more than his uncle's name - he inherits a hunger for knowledge that no apprenticeship can contain. Through encounters with bookish uncles, printer shops that smell of ink and possibility, and the bustling waterfront of a young America, we watch a curious boy transform into the self-made genius who would later bend lightning from the sky. Butterworth paints a portrait not of the legend, but of the lad whose imagination was set ablaze by a world waiting to be printed, questioned, and remade. For anyone who has ever wondered where genius begins, here is its origin story.