Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.37 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1508250596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. Facebook: Walter Isaacson, Twitter: @WalterIsaacson . He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein:
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—available on Encore at a great low price!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&r
An excellent biography Benjamin Franklin was a complicated personality whose political views changed over time. Franklin used Greek Philosophy as stepping stones from which he derived his first views on politics, virtues, and moral pragmatism but he shaped and modified these views as he aged. It is probably impossible to capture the essence of Benjamin Franklin's nature but this biography does it as well as it can be done. Franklin was invaluable when it came to editing the Declaration of Independence and negotiating the post-war treaties with France and England which est. "Franklin would have appreciated the Pope’s thoughts on our poor stewardship of the natural world and given his ability" according to Mac McCormick III. I didn’t plan it this way, but choosing to read Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson when I did was providential. While reading it, Pope Francis visited the United States and Speaker of the House Boehner announced his resignation. I think my timing was providential because I think that given his interest in the sciences, Franklin would have appreciated the Pope’s thoughts on our poor stewardship of the natural world and given his ability to compromise, he would decry what our Legislative Branch has become.“Frankli. A Complicated Man for an Extraordinary Time J.B. Hughes Recently, I have been spending time exploring the lives of America's founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin was someone that I thought I knew. In grade school we learn about the pithy Philladelphia boy who rose from poverty to wealth, flew a kite in a rain storm, and became an immortal figure in the "Pantheon" of the American founders. However, I discovered that I really did not know Franklin very well at all; the one-dimensional description that I knew was not sufficient to capture the essence of this complicated man. Walter Isaacson carefully depicts
At once a scientist, craftsman, writer, publisher, comic, sage, ladies' man, statesman, diplomat and inventor, Franklin not only wore many hats, but in many cases, did not have an equal. All things considered, Gaines is a good match for the material. His delivery of Isaacson's factual yet fascinating biography is informative and friendly with an instructional yet casual tone, like that of a gregarious narrator of an educational film. . The most intriguing thing he invented, and continued to reinvent, according to Isaacson, was himself. Isaacson's (Kissinger) biography does much to remind us o