PDF/ePub Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Writen By Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By : Walter Isaacson
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* Running time: 24 hours and 40 minutes *In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In 'BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,' Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings.The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of
Book Detail :
Author : Walter Isaacson
Pages : 25 pages
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B004VLETYM
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