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Simon & Schuster, 2004. — 586 p. 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...
Simon & Schuster, 2004. — 586 p. 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...
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016. — 227 p. The third edition ofThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with Related Documents continues to encourage students to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture. Louis P. Masur’s introduction is designed to make Franklin accessible and inviting to students. An expanded Related Documents section provides a...
University of California Press, 2003. - 383 p. Most of us know — at least we've heard — that Benjamin Franklin conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few of us realize — and what this book makes powerfully clear — is that Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology. This fast-paced book, rich with...
USA: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 240 p. ISBN10: 0195056760 ISBN13: 9780195056761 (eng) Fostering the "pursuit of happiness" was an avowed purpose of the American Revolution, but what was the phrase to mean in practice? How would the new society being created achieve what Enlightenment egalitarians called the "common good"? In this dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 409 p. The delightful correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and his favorite sister, with an introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren. Franklin wrote more letters to Jane Mecom than he is known to have written to any other person, and as she emerges through these letters we understand the reasons for the esteem in which he held her. The...
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