Which seeks to restore Adams to public affection, this book has no overriding agenda except to present the story of Franklin's life. Biographer Walter Isaacson gives insight into the fascinating life of Benjamin Franklin.Join us on Patreon. Unlike, say, David McCullough's John Adams, After examining the large body of existing Franklin scholarship as skillfully and critically as any scholar, Isaacson admits that his subject always "winks at us" to keep us at bay-which of course is one reason why he's so fascinating. The oldest, most distinctive and multifaceted of the founders, Franklin remains as mysterious as Jefferson. In bestselling author Walter Isaacsons vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from historys stage with eyes. Isaacson (now president of the Aspen Institute, he is the former chairman of CNN and a Henry Kissinger biographer) has a keen eye for the genius of a man whose fingerprints lie everywhere in our history. How do the two books differ? Isaacson's is more detailed it lingers over such matters as the nature of Franklin's complex family circumstances and his relations with others, and it pays closer attention to each of his extraordinary achievements. Isaacson's longer biography easily holds its own. A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson. Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan's justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin,
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