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. AR infor: Quiz Name: 74606 (Benjamin Franklin: An American Life) Reading Level: 10.6 Interest Level: Upper Grade Point Value: 38.0 Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. Blue card stock spine w/gold foil letters. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of Americas founders helped define our national character. 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. Just as David McCullough brought life to the historic figure of John Adams, Isaacson portrays Franklin in the flesh, showing readers how this radical man helped define America's national character and personality.Hardcover_card stock spine. Isaacson examines the run up to the Revolutionary War, the intimate relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the decisive events that led to America's independence. But this is not just a biography of Benjamin Franklin but rather a fascinating look at American and European political history at that time.
In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin's public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers.
During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer.
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