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Article: Benjamin Franklin: an American Life.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. By Walter Isaacson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 590 pages. $30.00. Reviewed by Captain Thomas A. Rider, Instructor, Department of History, US Military Academy.
The last several years have seen the resurgence of biographies and other historical works focused on America's founding generation. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and others have all appeared as the subjects of recent biographical studies, while works such as Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation have sought to examine the interaction of these figures in the birth of the nation. This ...