{"id":4598,"date":"2024-09-11T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/benjamin-franklin-an-american-life\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:58:45","slug":"benjamin-franklin-an-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/benjamin-franklin-an-american-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$0.00<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Sep 11, 2024 12:58:45 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B004VLETYM?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us &#8211; an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. <\/p>\n<p>In best-selling author Walter Isaacson&#8217;s vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history&#8217;s stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. <\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America&#8217;s first great publicist, he was consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. His guiding principle was a &#8220;dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people&#8221;. Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. <\/p>\n<p>In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin&#8217;s amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin&#8217;s tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. 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