BiographyPolitics and government

Benjamin Franklin

by Walter Isaacson, Boyd Gaines, Nelson RungerNot on Booklabria yet

No ratings on Booklabria yetBe the first to rate it

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.

Subjects: Biography
Politics and government
Scientists
Statesmen
Inventors
Scientists, biography
Set in: United States
Time: 1775-1783; 1783-1789
Characters: Benjamin Franklin

Content notes

No content warnings recorded yet. Catalogue records don't include them, which doesn't mean the book has none.

More by Walter Isaacson, Boyd Gaines, Nelson Runger

All books

Elon Musk
Leonardo da Vinci

The Innovators

Invent and Wander

The wise men: Six friends and the world they made

Kissinger

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood
The First American
Henry William Brands
A great improvisation
Stacy Schiff
Way to wealth
Benjamin Franklin
Kissinger's shadow
Greg Grandin
Our masters' voices
J. Maxwell Atkinson
John Adams
David McCullough
American scripture
Pauline Maier
The papers of James Madison
James Madison, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross
Life of George Washington
Washington Irving
Founding Brothers
Joseph J. Ellis
Fart proudly
Benjamin Franklin

Reviews

No reviews on Booklabria yet. The first one starts the conversation here.

Log in to review

Book data and covers from Open Library (openlibrary.org).

Editions

17 in 3 languages

See all editions

The most complete records first.

See all 12 English editions

Editions and their details come from Open Library, as its contributors recorded them. Publisher names are shown as recorded. See this book on Open Library(opens Open Library)

Synopsis

More by Walter Isaacson, Boyd Gaines, Nelson Runger

Related bookssharing subjects with this book

Reviews

Editions