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. 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. Agent, Amanda Urban.Hardcover_card stock spine. Unfortunately, for all its length, it's a book of connected short segments without artful, easy transitions So whether this fresh and lively work will replace Carl Van Doren's beloved 1938 Benjamin Franklin Which seeks to restore Adams to public affection, this book has no overriding agenda except to present the story of Franklin's life. Unlike, say, David McCullough's John Adams,
After examining the large body of existing Franklin scholarship as skillfully and critically as any scholar, Isaacson admits that his subject always "winks at us" to keep us at bay-which of course is one reason why he's so fascinating. The oldest, most distinctive and multifaceted of the founders, Franklin remains as mysterious as Jefferson. Isaacson (now president of the Aspen Institute, he is the former chairman of CNN and a Henry Kissinger biographer) has a keen eye for the genius of a man whose fingerprints lie everywhere in our history. How do the two books differ? Isaacson's is more detailed it lingers over such matters as the nature of Franklin's complex family circumstances and his relations with others, and it pays closer attention to each of his extraordinary achievements.
Isaacson's longer biography easily holds its own. Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan's justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin,
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