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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.

Audiobook

  • Published: 2003-07-01

  • Language: English

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

  • ISBN: 9780743561853

E-book

  • Published: 2004-07-30

  • Language: English

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

  • ISBN: 9780743260848


Author:

  • Walter Isaacson

Narrator:

  • Boyd Gaines

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 7 h 15 min
  • 577 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • History, politics, and warfare

3.9

29 ratings

Örjan

2024-03-12

En av de intelligenta och drivna män som la grunden för USA:s explosionsartade tillväxt och framgång. Tyvärr verkar det vara en nedbantad version, vilket är anledningen till att boken bara får tre stjärnor. Jag hade gärna sett att Nextory tydligt markerar att det är en förenklad version av en bok de erbjuder! Jag är en sån som vill ha hela historian, inte någon mellanstadievariant. En bra uppläsare får timmarna att flyta på. Jag rekommenderar att man letar reda på fullängdsversionen istället!

Gunilla

2023-10-24

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