{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-an-american-life-by-walter-isaacson","title":"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(7, 127, 187);\"\u003eThe Printer Who Became a Scientist, a Diplomat—and a Founding Father\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Franklin and the Invention of America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePilgrim’s Progress: Boston, 1706–1723\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJourneyman: Philadelphia and London, 1723–1726\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter: Philadelphia, 1726–1732\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublic Citizen: Philadelphia, 1731–1748\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScientist and Inventor: Philadelphia, 1744–1751\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolitician: Philadelphia, 1749–1756\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTroubled Waters: London, 1757–1762\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHome Leave: Philadelphia, 1763–1764\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgent Provocateur: London, 1765–1770\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebel: London, 1771–1775\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndependence: Philadelphia, 1775–1776\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCourtier: Paris, 1776–1778\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBon Vivant: Paris, 1778–1785\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeacemaker: Paris, 1778–1785\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSage: Philadelphia, 1785–1790\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Non-Fiction\"\u003e非小說 Non-Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Biography\"\u003e人物傳記 Biography\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=American+History\"\u003e美國歷史 American History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Founding+Fathers\"\u003e美國開國元勳 Founding Fathers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=American+Revolution\"\u003e美國革命 American Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=History+of+Science\"\u003e科學史 History of Science\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Inventors\"\u003e發明家 Inventors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Political+Biography\"\u003e政治人物傳記 Political Biography\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/search?q=Early+American+History\"\u003e美國早期歷史 Early American History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Isaacson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51843350004018,"sku":"9780743258074","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0807\/4772\/5106\/files\/9780743258074.jpg?v=1789770538","url":"https:\/\/starryferrybooks.com\/products\/benjamin-franklin-an-american-life-by-walter-isaacson","provider":"Starry Ferry Books 星渡書店","version":"1.0","type":"link"}