Benjamin Franklin won an Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special (Traditional) in 2003.
He took this intellectual revolution to heart, writing aphorisms based on it for the publication he founded, Poor Richard's Almanack.
In 1757 Franklin moves to London, sent from Pennsylvania on a mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands.
Franklin arrived as an ardent admirer of the empire as well as a lover of the American colonies (“There's nothing I want more than the prosperity of both,” he says).
The final 14 years of Franklin's life, nine of which were spent in Paris as ambassador to France from the rebellious American colonies.