Which seeks to restore Adams to public affection, this book has no overriding agenda except to present the story of Franklin's life. Autobiography 79 Jonathan Yardley, review of Edmund Morgan's Benjamin.

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. 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. And he helped invent Americas unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin. Isaacson's longer biography easily holds its own. The Benjamin Franklin book summary will give you access to a. Franklin, the author argues, 'has been vilified in romantic periods and lionised in entrepreneurial ones' since 'each era appraises him anew' and thus 'in doing so reveals some assessments of itself. Gain a complete understanding of Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson from Blinkist. Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan's justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin, In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of. Isaacson notes that Franklins reputation has shifted based on time and place given the statesmans achievements and personality.

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