本杰明·富南克林 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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作者： Walter Isaacson 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2004-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 586印刷时间： 2004/05/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780743258074包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者介绍：Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson, the president of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Kissinger: A Biography and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.
内容简介
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.
目录
CHAPTER ONE
Benjamin Franklin and the invention of america
CHAPTER TWO
Pilgrim`s progress:boston,1706-1723
CHAPTER THREE
Journeyman:philadelphia and london,1723-1726
CHAPTER FOUR
Printer:philadelphia,1726-1732
CHAPTER FIVE
Public Cicizen:philadelphia,1731-1748
CHAPTER XIS
Scientist and inventor:philadelphia,1744-1751
CHAPTER SEVEN
Politician:philadelphia,1749-1756
CHAPTER EIGHT
Troubled waters:London,1757-1762
CHAPTER NINE
Home leave:Philadelphia,1763-1764
CHAPTER TEN
Agent provocateur:London,1765-1770
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Rebel:london,1771-1775
CHAPTER TWELVE
Inedpendence; philadelphia,1775-1776
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Courtire:Paris,1776-1778
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Bon vivant:Paris,1778-1785
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Peacemaker:Paris,1778-1790
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Sage:philadelphia,1785-1790
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Epilogue
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Conclusions
Cast of characters
Chronology
Currency conversions
Acknowledgments
Sources and Abbreviations
Notes
Index