Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeSimon and Schuster, 2003年7月31日 - 608 頁 In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-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. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century. |
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... young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self, and then through the memories later recounted by his wife. It's all topped off with the old man's deft little affirmation—“as I certainly did”—in which his self-deprecation barely ...
... young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self, and then through the memories later recounted by his wife. It's all topped off with the old man's deft little affirmation—“as I certainly did”—in which his self-deprecation barely ...
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... young printer in Philadelphia, he carted rolls of paper through the streets to give the appearance of being industrious. As an old diplomat in France, he wore a fur cap to portray the role of backwoods sage. In between, he created an ...
... young printer in Philadelphia, he carted rolls of paper through the streets to give the appearance of being industrious. As an old diplomat in France, he wore a fur cap to portray the role of backwoods sage. In between, he created an ...
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... young man, he built from scratch a clock that worked throughout his life. Like his father and grandfather, he became a blacksmith, but in small English villages the smith took on a variety of tasks. According to a nephew, he “also ...
... young man, he built from scratch a clock that worked throughout his life. Like his father and grandfather, he became a blacksmith, but in small English villages the smith took on a variety of tasks. According to a nephew, he “also ...
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... family of John Folger, including his 18-year-old son Peter, sailed for Boston in 1635, when the town was a mere five years old. On the voyage over, Peter met a young servant girl Pilgrim's Progress: Boston, 1706–1723 13.
... family of John Folger, including his 18-year-old son Peter, sailed for Boston in 1635, when the town was a mere five years old. On the voyage over, Peter met a young servant girl Pilgrim's Progress: Boston, 1706–1723 13.
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An American Life Walter Isaacson. On the voyage over, Peter met a young servant girl named Mary Morrill, who was indentured to one of the Puritan ministers aboard. After their arrival, Peter was able to buy her freedom for £20 and take ...
An American Life Walter Isaacson. On the voyage over, Peter met a young servant girl named Mary Morrill, who was indentured to one of the Puritan ministers aboard. After their arrival, Peter was able to buy her freedom for £20 and take ...
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Philadelphia and London 17231726 | 36 |
Philadelphia 17261732 | 52 |
Philadelphia 17311748 | 102 |
Philadelphia 17441751 | 129 |
Philadelphia 17491756 | 146 |
London 17571762 | 175 |
Paris 17781785 | 382 |
Philadelphia 17851790 | 436 |
Chapter Seventeen Epilogue | 471 |
Chapter Eighteen Conclusions | 476 |
Cast of Characters | 495 |
Chronology | 503 |
Currency Conversions | 507 |
Acknowledgments | 509 |
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第 5 頁 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.