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Simon & Schuster, November 2010
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1439183449
ISBN-13: 9781439183441
Description
In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. He writes also about how he became a writer, the challenges for journalism in the digital age, and offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans.
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“A compelling, highly readable collection of fresh perspectives on some of the most significant names in American history.”
-- Kirkus
WBRZ, November 25, 2009
...kept us in perpetual communication with the outside world. That time was not too long ago, as author Walter Isaacson reminds us in a new book, and yet the pre-cell phone era can seem as distant now as the age of the telegraph and the Pony ...
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The Wise MenThe classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.Read More -
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Benjamin FranklinIn his New York Times bestselling biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating founding father helped define our national character.Read More
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A Benjamin Franklin ReaderA selection of Benjamin Franklin's writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.Read More
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