Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“The New York Times Book Review” A thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle. “The New Yorker” Energetic, entertaining, and worldly. “The Washington Post Book World” The most readable full-length Franklin biography available. “The New York Times” In its common sense, clarity and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin’s sly pragmatism….This may be the book that most powerfully drives a new pendulum swing of the Franklin reputation.

Walter Isaacson recently stepped down from his position as chairman and CEO of the CNN News Group. A journalist for more than 25 years, he previously served as Time Inc.’s editorial director and as Time magazine’s managing editor, national affairs writer and political correspondent. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford University, where he was a Rhode Scholar, he is the author of Kissinger: A Biography and co-author (with Evan Thomas) of The Wise Men: Six Friends And The World They Made.