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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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I was blown away by Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs. So knowing this would have to be different (no interviews of the subject or his contemporaries), I was excited when my book club selected this earlier work by Isaacson. I have been through the swings in how we in the US view Benjamin Franklin from childhood history classes that presented him as a hero to an adult perception of a cartoonish figure to amazement at becoming reacquainted with his many interests by the museum in Phil ...more
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