Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Both astonishing and prophetic

Both astonishing and prophetic

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this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Both astonishing and propheticIn 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 Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson