The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder ...

Walter Isaacson is a writer and biographer ... He has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs. Strategy 2012-03-21T14:51:00Z ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Moderated by Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour. Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History ...