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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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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Isaacson写了几本人物传记,这本写得最差,无比琐碎,主线不明显。幸好old Ben天生妙人一个,我还是读得津津有味。
评分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。
评分如果减少些“风流韵事”的篇幅,本书长度大概能压缩掉五分之一。但那基本不影响叙事的精彩,就如同传主本人即使有些人格上的缺陷,他仍然是一位伟大的平民英雄,度过了精彩的“有用”的一生,而作者将最闪光的地方都捕捉到了:“他从天空夺下了闪电,从暴君手中夺下了权杖”。Audible上对有声书“怨声载道”,其实朗读者的声音有老派味道,非常柔和动听,对Franklin和Adams这两位的形象塑造简直绝妙(后者可能太卡通了一点,哈),而且语速缓慢,对非母语听众很友好????但是后期制作确实有问题,偶尔能听到明显的呼吸声、吞咽声,似乎还有嚼口香糖的声音????
评分后半段本杰明爷爷成佛了我就看不下去了- -
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