Benjamin Franklin Audiobook by Walter Isaacson

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/30/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Benjamin Franklin Subtitle: An American Life Author: Walter Isaacson Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 07-18-03 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 972 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures Publisher's Summary: 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. 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 relationship 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. Critic Reviews: "Benjamin Franklin catalogs the extraordinary range of its subject's accomplishments, which remain unrivaled in their variety and utility." (The New York Times) "Isaacson has crafted a wonderfully written biography, and his treatment of Franklin's youth and rise to prominence is insightful and imaginative" (The Washington Post) "The abridgment is seamless, the text runs the gamut...from brilliant to ordinary."(AudioFile) "Blessed with one of the most polished and easy-to-absorb voices in the audio business, reader Boyd Gaines does an outstanding job with Walter Isaacson's excellent biography of perhaps the most appealing of the Founding Fathers..." (USA Today)