Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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Simon and Schuster, 31. jul. 2003 - 608 strani
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.
 

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Chapter One Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America
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Boston 17061723
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Philadelphia and London 17231726
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Philadelphia 17261732
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Philadelphia 17311748
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Philadelphia 17441751
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Philadelphia 17491756
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London 17571762
175
Paris 17781785
382
Philadelphia 17851790
436
Chapter Seventeen Epilogue
471
Chapter Eighteen Conclusions
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Cast of Characters
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Chronology
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Currency Conversions
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Acknowledgments
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Philadelphia 17631764
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London 17651770
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London 17711775
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Philadelphia 17751776
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Paris 17761778
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Paris 17781785
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Sources and Abbreviations
513
Notes
519
Index
567
About the Author
591
A Note on Type
593
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Stran 5 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.

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Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

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