Benjamin Franklin: the Classic American

"What then is the American?" Jean de Crévecoeur stated in his story Letters from an American Farmer. His description of an American is a blessed man that should be idealized by Europeans, because in America you can marry whomever you fall in love with, and you can go from dirt poor to one of the wealthiest men in less than a lifetime. His ideas of an American describe many people but one man that should stand out in all minds would be Benjamin Franklin. …