Benjamin Franklin

an American life

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Walter Isaacson: Benjamin Franklin (2003, Simon & Schuster)

590 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 2003 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-0-684-80761-4
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Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.

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Subjects

  • Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790
  • Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
  • Scientists -- United States -- Biography
  • Inventors -- United States -- Biography
  • Printers -- United States -- Biography
  • United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
  • United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789