Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Preowned paperback book that shows signs of wear on cover, edges, corners, and binding from reading and storage. No markings on inner pages and all intact. NOTICE: $3 listings must be bundled to ship—orders placed without a bundle will be canceled. Poshmark’s shipping label covers up to 5 lbs total, including packaging materials. If your bundle exceeds this limit, an additional fee may apply, or the order may be canceled unless we arrange another option. Message me—I’m happy to help find the best solution! 💗 NEW TO POSHMARK? Sign up using INVITE code: YDVOUK for $10 off your purchase! 💗 Weight: - 2 lbs Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.