Benjamin Franklin

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• America's founding yuppie

  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson 590pp, Simon & Schuster, £20 If Winston Churchill, by popular acclaim, was the greatest Englishman, Ben Franklin was the greatest American. He was certainly the most lovable of the Founding Fathers, ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Benjamin Franklin By Walter Isaacson

  Benjamin Franklin's extraordinary and complex life as a printer, entrepreneur, postmaster and diplomat, among other activities had a profound effect on the development of the United States. As Walter Isaacson points out in his superb new biography, B ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Not So Franklin

  This is a (too) serious book about Benjamin Franklin. The author has used a very conservative perspective (though very comprehensive) to write about Franklin's life. There are so many speculations about Franklin's love affairs, which were discredited by the author with lacking of evidence.

  I ... (continue)

  This is a (too) serious book about Benjamin Franklin. The author has used a very conservative perspective (though very comprehensive) to write about Franklin's life. There are so many speculations about Franklin's love affairs, which were discredited by the author with lacking of evidence.

  I thought it was quite a boring book comparing to the Franklin's exciting and interesting life.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 589 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0684807610
• ISBN-13: 9780684807614
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Pub date: Jul 01, 2003
• Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 简体书, Livres Français

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