![]() ![]() In its common sense, clarity and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin's sly pragmatism. Instead of complex character analysis he has delivered a well-organized, highly user-friendly book with an emphasis on the contemporary rather than the quaint. ![]() ''I tried to take a different approach from his by writing a chronological narrative biography, but I do not pretend to have matched his insights,'' Mr. Isaacson's work on this new book's back cover. Morgan returns the favor with a flattering assessment of Mr. Morgan, was published only last year and is admiringly acknowledged by Mr. The most recent, ''Benjamin Franklin'' by Edmund S. Many other Franklin biographies exist, and not in the fog of distant memory. As the 300th anniversary of his birth approaches (now a mere three and a half years away), Franklin is apt to become an increasingly attention-getting figure, although his life, inventions and extraordinary feats of government building and international diplomacy have not exactly languished in obscurity. The most important part of Walter Isaacson's ''Benjamin Franklin'' comes last, as the author sums up his book's raison d'ĂȘtre. ![]()
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