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Benjamin Franklin : an American life / Walter Isaacson

By:

Isaacson, Walter

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , c2003Description: 586 p. : illus ; 24 cmISBN:

9780743258074

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DDC classification:

92 FRA

Summary: Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America'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. H

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024521

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America'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. H