We think of Franklin is the doddery dude flying a kite in a rain.

Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isickson.

He's the most successful self-made business person in America.

A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

Franklin casts his lot on the side of Revolution and it's another thing that splits the family apart.

Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacakson on the I-Heart radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold,

with law enforcement seemingly powerless to intervene.

It uses terror to extort people.

But the murder of Carmichaelante

marked the beginning of the end.

It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.

Listen to law and order criminal justice system

on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

I'm Jacob Goldstein.

I used to host Planet Money. Now I'm starting a new show. It's called

What's Your Problem? Every week on What's Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers

describe the future they're going to build once they solve a few problems.

I'm talking to people trying to figure out how to do things that no one on the planet knows

how to do, from creating a drone delivery business to building a car that can truly

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