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Benjamin Franklin audiobook
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrator: Nelson Runger
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Political
- Length: 24 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin Audiobook Summary
In 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.
Benjamin 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.
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.
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Benjamin Franklin Audiobook Narrator
Nelson Runger is the narrator of Benjamin Franklin audiobook that was written by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
About the Author(s) of Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin Full Details
| Narrator | Nelson Runger |
| Length | 24 hours 40 minutes |
| Author | Walter Isaacson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | June 09, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781442342170 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Benjamin Franklin is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Political
Additional info
The publisher of the Benjamin Franklin is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442342170.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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