Name: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9780743258074

portada Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Isaacson

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

608

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.2 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.78 kg.

ISBN

074325807X

ISBN13

9780743258074

Synopsis "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life"

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 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. 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 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.

Walter Isaacson

(Author)

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Walter Isaacson imparte clases de Historia en la Universidad de Tulane. Ha sido director del Instituto Aspen y de la CNN, así como de la revista Time.

Es autor de Einstein (Debate, 2014), Steve Jobs (Debate, 2011), Los innovadores (Debate, 2014), Leonardo da Vinci (Debate, 2018), Benjamin Franklin. An American Life (2003) y Kissinger. A Biography (1992), y coautor, con Evan Thomas, de The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

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