Benjamin Franklin American Life by Isaacson Walter, First Edition (45 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Simon & Schuster Edition. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 586 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Very Good/Very Good Condition. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscription. First edition, fifth printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 624 pages.

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

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.

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 .

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 .

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Top corner of jacket rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. x, 590, [4] pp. 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. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First printing hardcover signed by Isaacson to the title page. Fine condition in like DJ in mylar. ; 6.25 X 1.7 X 9.25 inches; 624 pages; Signed by Author.

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. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press, 2004. Octavo. Hardcover. Brown leather with gilt page ends. Book is like new; clean and crisp. No writing, no bookplates. A very fine leatherbound copy of this landmark biography of Benjamin Franklin. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.