Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who appears fabricated from flesh somewhat than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and again, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who turned, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s greatest author, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and enterprise strategist, in addition to one among its most sensible and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind
Poor Richard’s Almanac and the knowledge behind the Declaration of Independence, the brand new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Structure.

On this colourful and intimate narrative, Isaacson gives the complete sweep of Franklin’s wonderful life, displaying how he helped to forge the American nationwide identification and why he has a specific resonance within the twenty-first century.