Blue card stock spine w/gold foil letters. Features: Excerpt, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents Annotation: Rescuing Benjamin Franklin from the clich of genial codger, this book celebrates the most interesting, advanced, and earthy of the founding fathers. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci The Innovators Steve Jobs Einstein: His Life and Universe Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. The Washington Post Book World The most readable full-length Franklin biography available.Ībout the Author Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. The New Yorker Energetic, entertaining, and worldly. The New York Times In its common sense, clarity and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin's sly pragmatism.This may be the book that most powerfully drives a new pendulum swing of the Franklin reputation.
The New York Times Book Review A thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle.
In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. About the Book This sweeping narrative chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders.īook Synopsis In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
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