Benjamin Franklin – Walter Isaacson

In Walter Isaacson’s vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history’s stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.

Author

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of “Time” magazine. He is the author of “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.” He lives in Washington, DC.