{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-an-american-life-walter-isaacson-paperback","title":"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life -- Walter Isaacson, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSteve Jobs\u003c\/i\u003e, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBenjamin 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 \u003ci\u003ePoor Richard's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Isaacson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.12w x 1.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743258074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e74606 \/ Benjamin Franklin: An American Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/23\/2004 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLeonardo da Vinci\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Innovators\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Steve Jobs\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEinstein: His Life and Universe\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Franklin: An American Life\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eKissinger: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coauthor of\u003ci\u003e The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. \u003c\/i\u003eVisit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Isaacson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49642938269924,"sku":"9780743258074","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780743258074.jpg?v=1786607463","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/benjamin-franklin-an-american-life-walter-isaacson-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}