reading...

[Mugwump]

What's everyone reading currently?.....I have a few on my list that I need to find.....

this is one...I like the way Isaacson writes....



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.

[LizStreithorst]

Looks like a good read.

[Mugwump]

Looks like a good read.

It's a tome...but he writes well....

I'm reading his book on Lincoln now....wonderful...

[LizStreithorst]

If the writing is good it doesn't matter how long it is.  I want to read about Franklin before I move on to Lincoln.  Franklin was so human.  Franklin wrote "fart proudly". 

[Mugwump]

If the writing is good it doesn't matter how long it is.  I want to read about Franklin before I move on to Lincoln.  Franklin was so human.  Franklin wrote "fart proudly".

...and he loved beer too.....

[BillT]

I read a nice book on Franklin maybe two years ago, by some other guy though.
He is in many ways fascinating.
Among other things he discovered the Gulf Stream and was a significant early researcher on electricity.
Helped to establish American science as something serious.

[Mugwump]

I read a nice book on Franklin maybe two years ago, by some other guy though.
He is in many ways fascinating.
Among other things he discovered the Gulf Stream and was a significant early researcher on electricity.
Helped to establish American science as something serious.

.....and loved women.....

[LizStreithorst]

Damn shame he's not still alive today.  I would find him and make him mine.

[BallAquatics]

Scored a great end-of-the-year bargain on some tech books!!!  $497.94 in books and videos for $30.01  Mostly Python, but some JavaScript stuff too.   

Dennis