Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson photograpy The Science and Art of

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The illustrations depicting the end of life for the mother octopus are particularly moving

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson photograpy The Science and Art ofIn 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