{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-an-american-life","title":"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe most readable full-length Franklin biography available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn its common sense, clarity and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin's sly pragmatism....This may be the book that most 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EIGHT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroubled Waters: London, 1757-1762\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER NINE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome Leave: Philadelphia, 1763-1764\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER TEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgent Provocateur: London, 1765-1770\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER ELEVEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebel: London, 1771-1775\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER TWELVE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependence: Philadelphia, 1775-1776\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER THIRTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourtier: Paris, 1776-1778\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER FOURTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBon Vivant: Paris, 1778-1785\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER FIFTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeacemaker: Paris, 1778-1785\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER SIXTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSage: Philadelphia, 1785-1790\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER SEVENTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHAPTER EIGHTEEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCast of Characters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurrency Conversions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSources and Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Isaacson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, 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