Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeIn 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. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. 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. 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 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. |
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An American Life Walter Isaacson. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Benjamin Franklin AN AMERICAN LIFE " A thoroughly researched , crisply written , convinc- ingly argued chronicle . " The New York Times Book Review WALTER ISAACSON 3 1 ...
An American Life Walter Isaacson. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Benjamin Franklin AN AMERICAN LIFE " A thoroughly researched , crisply written , convinc- ingly argued chronicle . " The New York Times Book Review WALTER ISAACSON 3 1 ...
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An American Life Walter Isaacson. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AN AMERICAN LIFE WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the.
An American Life Walter Isaacson. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AN AMERICAN LIFE WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the.
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... York , NY 10020 Copyright © 2003 by Walter Isaacson All rights reserved , including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form . First Simon & Schuster paperback edition 2004 SIMON AND SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS and colophon are ...
... York , NY 10020 Copyright © 2003 by Walter Isaacson All rights reserved , including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form . First Simon & Schuster paperback edition 2004 SIMON AND SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS and colophon are ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER THREE | 36 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 52 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 102 |
CHAPTER | 129 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 146 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 175 |
Philadelphia 17631764 | 206 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 290 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 325 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 350 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 382 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 436 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 471 |
Cast of Characters | 495 |
Chronology | 503 |
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