is a thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle that is also studded with little nuggets of fresh information . . . .
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life . . . "A full-length portrait virtually assured to bring Franklin’s remarkable career before a sizable readership . . . .
This is a book I’ve looked forward to for a long time and that I’ve found wholly enthralling from beginning to end. Walter Isaacson writes with great vitality, intelligence, and a clear-eyed understanding of the worlds of politics, the press, and the human equations of high-level diplomacy. And so, happily, it is in this splendid new look at the incomparable Franklin, who remains one of those Americans about whom we can never know enough. Given the nature and accomplishments of the man, any biography of Benjamin Franklin has to be a chronicle of a half-dozen or more lives in one, all lived with amazing energy, and all extremely interesting. will probably supplant Van Doren’s as the standard single-volume biography of Franklin. Read moreĬLICK HERE TO SIGN UP Praise for Benjamin Franklin 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. 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.īenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble.
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