Quick Facts
| Author | Walter Isaacson |
| Narrator | Nelson Runger |
| Runtime | 24h40m |
| Published | April 7, 2011 |
| Rating | 4.6 / 5 (183 ratings) |
| Categories | Biographies & Memoirs, Historical, Politics & Activism, Politicians, History, Americas, United States, Revolution & Founding |
| Format | Audiobook (Digital) |
| Platform | Audible |
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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...
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