Benjamin Franklin An American Life By Walter Isaacson

Author: Walter Isaacson

ISBN: 978-0743258074

Price: Rs. 1099.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

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 Franklins 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, Americas 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 Richards Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nations 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 Franklins amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.

Browse this title within our Autobiography collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 608 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0743258074.

About the Author

Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this richly detailed, premium biography because it brings Benjamin Franklin vividly to life—not as a statue, but as a curious, witty, endlessly inventive human being. Walter Isaacson blends storytelling with deep historical insight, showing how Franklin shaped science, media, diplomacy, and the American experiment itself. It’s a rewarding, authoritative read that doubles as a lasting reference and a source of timeless lessons on leadership, creativity, and practical wisdom.
• Published by Simon & Schuster.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 608.

Catalog Description

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 Franklins 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, Americas best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and...

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