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Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Walter Isaacson, Boyd Gaines, Nelson Runger
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 590
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, 2004, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780743258074
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Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Walter-Isaacson/697650
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