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Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeIn 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. 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
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. 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 course of his eighty-four-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/01/2003
ISBN: 9780684807614
Pages: 608
Weight: 2.19lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.52w x 1.67d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2003 pg. 658
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2003 pg. 56
USA Today 05/22/2003 pg. 1
Booklist 06/01/2003 pg. 1736
Library Journal 06/15/2003 pg. 80
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2003 pg. 143
BookPage 07/01/2003 pg. 23
New Yorker (The) 06/30/2003 pg. 96
New York Times 07/06/2003 pg. 11
People Weekly 07/14/2003 pg. 45
Newsweek 07/14/2003 pg. 58
Men's Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 28
New York Review of Books 12/04/2003 pg. 22
New York Times 12/07/2003 pg. 71
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 974
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 74606 / Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Reading Level: 10.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 38
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My raptor GSP destroyed this dino toy
Color: Medium - Dilophosaurus, Color: Medium - Dilophosaurus
My dog ripped this toy apart faster than the trex did the lawyer in Jurassic Park. 2 hours! Arm was ripped off, stuffing pulled out methodically over the next to days. Now it is a gutless husk. The metor was kinder to the og dinos than my gsp was to this. Sorry Bite Force. Open to product sampling tho!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2026
★★★★★ 4
My Hero pup is super happy with it
Color: Large - Billy the Beast Monster
I was super excited to order this and had waited some time to do so. I wanted Big Billy The Beast Monster in large Green, he’s an awesome looking guy. My Golden Retriever was all over me while I was up packaging Him and his tail was in helicopter mode. He was so excited to have it and carried it around the house everywhere we went, he’s laying on me with his head in my lap and Billy’s right next to him. Reason for buying it? Well he loves plushies but there are not many available out there that can stand up to this 80 pound chew monster so I have to keep him on harder stuff, 2 of which are the cheapest toy skull and crosses in orange and blue from a cheap outlet site but he loves them. Orange was first then when we pulled out the blue one he had a aha moment. Now with Billy he was on a whole new level of excitement, I’ve never seen him this excited over a toy, he can’t stop carrying it with him everywhere and showing it off to the other pups I have, there’s no growling or resource guarding but he definitely won’t want to share and that’s of because I always take away any plushies that he gets to because he is serious about chewing. This being made with Kevlar gave me hopes of longevity but he had the ears and the end of 1 hand chewed off in under 2 hours, am I disappointed…yea a little but he has gotten so much joy out of it that it’s made me really happy to have bought it anyway, see he’s my Service Dog so he spends a lot of time being so serious and working that he needs any outlet for spending energy possible and he’s so happy with it that it makes me happy. As I’m writing this he’s asleep with his head in my lap and Billy right next to him looking very tired and happy and that my friends is worth all the beans in the world.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Durable, easy to throw, easy to clean.
My lab loves it! Durable, easy to clean when it gets muddy, and easy to throw.
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★★★★★ 5
Durable, easy to throw, easy to clean.
My lab loves it! Durable, easy to clean when it gets muddy, and easy to throw.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2025
★★★★★ 5
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Great toy for my great Pyrenees. Chewed and chewed on this. Lasted longer than most toys!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2026
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