Best benjamin franklin biography book
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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time
The First American: The Life and Times
of Benjamin Franklin
bygd H. W. Brands
716 pages
Anchor Books (Random House)
Published: September 2000
H. W. Brands’ “The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin” was published in 2000 and was a pris Prize finalist. Brands fryst vatten a professor of history and government at the University of Texas and a prolific author. He has written nearly three-dozen books including biographies of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and Ronald Reagan (each of which inom have read and reviewed).
Given its encyclopedic breadth and scholarly bent, “The First American” has largely supplanted Carl Van Doren’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic as the standard biography of Franklin. With 716 pages of ord and studious attention to every major facet of Franklin’s unusually varied and interesting life, Brands’ biography is comprehensive, detai
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“People who have read one or more of the many current books about Benjamin Franklin really ought to direct their attention to the man himself, specifically to The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. . . . It is the first great American book. . . . An extraordinary document. . . . Plainly yet vividly written, its 18th-century prose still accessible to ordinary readers more than two centuries later. . . . It portrays Colonial and Revolutionary America . . . with an immediacy unmatched in almost any other document. . . . Franklin’s wisdom is for the ages, our own as much as his. So read the Autobiography and—among the many editions available—read Yale’s. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb,•
The 10 Best Books on Benjamin Franklin
There are countless books on Benjamin Franklin, and it comes with good reason, he was a successful printer, founding father of the United States of America, scientist celebrated for his discoveries and theories in the realm of electricity, and leading intellectual of his time.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” he remarked.
In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of history’s most consequential figures to the heights of societal contribution, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best books on Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
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 chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the cou