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 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
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster; First Edition (15 August 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 608 pages
ISBN-10 : 0684807610
ISBN-13 : 978-0684807614
Dimensions : 15.88 x 4.32 x 23.5 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 19,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
8 in History of the Revolution & Founding of the United States
9 in American Revolution Biographies
27 in 19th Century U.S. History
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