Benjamin Franklin: an American life
(Large Print)
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Published:
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike, 2004.
Physical Desc:
907 pages (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
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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.
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.
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Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Printers -- United States -- Biography.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Printers -- United States -- Biography.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789.
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Format:
Large Print
Language:
English
ISBN:
0786260033 (lg. print : alk. paper)
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 10.6, 38 Points
Level 10.6, 38 Points
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 805-904).
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Isaacson, W. (2004). Benjamin Franklin: an American life. Waterville, Me., Thorndike.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Isaacson, Walter. 2004. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Waterville, Me., Thorndike.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Isaacson, Walter, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Waterville, Me., Thorndike, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Waterville, Me., Thorndike, 2004.
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