Summary
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.
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 adven…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684807614 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684807610 |
| Author: | Walter Isaacson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 966g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 159mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
The Washington Post Book WorldThe most readable full-length Franklin biography available.
“The New York Times Book Review” A thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle.
“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 Yorker” Energetic, entertaining, and worldly.
“The Washington Post Book World” The most readable full-length Franklin biography available.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.
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