Franklin Exhibit and Festival Background

The World through Ben's Bifocals

has been chosen by Dr. Ralph Lerner as the title for his keynote speech at the opening reception for the "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" Exhibition at the Niles (IL) Public Library on Sunday, October 19th, at 2 p.m.

Dr. Lerner is the Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the College and of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.


He is the co-editor of The Founders' Constitution, ed. with Philip B. Kurland (1987),
The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic (1987), and
Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment (1994)