Benjamin Franklin American Life by Isaacson Walter (364 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Photos (illustrator). Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Very Good. Cassettes are in like new condition. Stored in a cool dry place. Box has wear and some tears. It is complete.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

AUDIO CASSETTE. Condition: Good. 4 AUDIO CASSETTES in the original printed box. We will test each cassette, prior to shipping, for a nice sound. You will receive a good set. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CASSETTE performance.

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st trade paperback edition. Color & B&W illustrations. 590 pages.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

2003 / 590 pages. Relié avec jaquette. Editions Simon & Schuster. English Very Good Condition.

Near fine in dust jacket, spine lightly sunned.

Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/VG-; yellowish beige pictorial spine with blue text; dust jacket exterior shows very slight wear; cloth exterior has minimal wear; solid binding and boards; text block exterior edges have mild wear; interior clean; deckled fore edge; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece; illustrated; pp 590; inscribed by author. 1366746. FP New Rockville Stock.

(FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN). ISAACSON, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st ed. 8vo. [12], 590, [6] pp., illus. Fine in d/j.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 590 pps.

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page.

Simon & Schuster, New York 2003. First edition, first printing. XII+586 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Original boards in dustwrappers. Near fine/near fine.

Simon & Schuster, New York 2003. Publishers boards with dustjacket. 590 pages. Illustrated. Nice copy in very fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Library Binding. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Paperback, 23 cm, 586 pp. Ills.: black and white and color illustrations. Cond.: zeer goed / very good ISBN: 9780743258074.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj (small name in pen to upper front free endpaper). First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated. 590pp. A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, and a clean and bright dj.

leather_bound. Condition: LikeNew. Page block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without markings of any kind. Fine, like new condition. Previous owners name plate on the inside of front endpaper. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 8vo. Full blue paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. x, 590 pp., [8] plates colour illustration, B&W frontis. Spine slightly cocked. Fine overall.

Qr. Cloth, Paper Covered Board. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An excellent copy of the First Printing . The book is clean , no marks of any kind . The hinges are tight on the large book . The covers on the boards are fresh . The graphics on the spine are bright . The very nice dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An excellent copy of the First Printing . A first-rate study by Isaacson . The book is clean , no marks of any kind . The binding is tight . The covers on the boards is are fresh . The graphics on the s[ine are bright . The very nice dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Seow, Jackie (jacket design); Van Loo, Charles Amedee Phillippe (jacket portrait); Pfaff, Mary (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition dark blue boards, dark blue spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Walter Isaacson; Author Dedication; Epilogue; Conclusions; Cast of Characters; Chronology; Currency Conversions; Acknowledgments; Sources and Abbreviations; Notes; Index; About the Author; and Illustration Credits. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. "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, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical - though not most profound - political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism. But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, 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. Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationshop with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Walter Isaacson's splendid Benjamin Franklin is both an absorbing narrative biography and an acute assessment of the man and his impact on his times, and on posterity. After all, Franklin, the man who did so much to invent America, is the most modern of the Founding Fathers and vividly embodies the virtues and contradictions of the national character." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on FEP. Light crease on front flap. ; 9.5 X 6.6 X 1.6 inches; 624 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 3/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 590 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography, cast of characters and text. Illustrated with a section of plates of images from contemporary works of art most of which are in color. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.