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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-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. Above all, Isaacson shows how Franklin's unwavering faith in the wisdom of the common citizen and his instinctive appreciation for the possibilities of democracy helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class.
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讲了很多自传中绝不会讲的故事。包括了自传中没来得及写的富兰克林晚年的工作和生活。买的audiobook,所以是听完的,不是读的。
评分I couldn't finish it. It is not a smooth read.. I don't know if it is because the author did not write well, or just because I cannot relate to this great American figure.
评分对英文的要求蛮高的
评分读过Goodwin再看Isaacson觉得差好多啊,读起来的劲头就没那么足了。 Issac的写作方法基本上很难让人喜欢他传记的主角,或者也可以反过来说,他喜欢写这种优点和缺点同样突出的个性人物。 用喜欢和不喜欢来描述BF也许太肤浅了,他是个相当复杂和多样的人,就像他的涉猎一样。不过他确实led such a nowadays typical American life。
评分2018.07.27 读到30%,太多的篇幅描写flirtation,觉得浪费时间,弃。 2018.08.09 继续读
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