Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

by Walter Isaacson

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Isaacson portrays Franklin as America's most accomplished Founding Father: scientist, diplomat, writer, and inventor. His genius lay in practical curiosity and the relentless ability to reinvent himself.

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