Ben Franklin Ideas

DVD SET

The political wrangles of a fledgling country may sound dull compared to the drama of a war, but the early history of the United States only gets more fascinating as the Revolutionary War is left behind. This set a documentary from the History Channel, examines the struggle to not only establish democracy, but to give it the economic strength and g[Read More]

DVD set 8 discs

The choice of Franklin-s Autobiography, containing account of his journey of self-education as the cornerstone of the Harvard Classics demonstrates Charles Eliot-s mission in creating the five-foot shelf of books: -to afford a good substitute for a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion.- Exemplifying the inner life of the [Read More]

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of po[Read More]