書名：Benjamin Franklin富蘭剋林傳 一個美國人的生活
作者：Walter Isaacson
齣版社名稱： Simon & Schuster
齣版時間：2004
語種：英文
ISBN：9780743258074
商品尺寸： 15.6 x3.7 x 23.4 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：592

“誠實和勤勉，應該成為你的伴侶。” 
Benjamin Franklin《富蘭剋林傳》的作者為美國知名傳記作傢沃爾特?艾薩剋森，他撰寫過《史蒂夫?喬布斯傳》《基辛格傳》《愛因斯坦：生活和宇宙》等多部暢銷傳記。正如我們所知，本傑明?富蘭剋林是美國偉大的先驅者和美國民主締造者之一。作為一個傳奇人物，他參與瞭《獨立宣言》與美國憲法的起草，而且在科學、文學、外交等諸多領域也有突齣的貢獻。
本書是英文原版，艾薩剋森以其純熟的寫作手法，清晰地刻畫齣這位美國偉人高尚的品格及堅毅的精神。書本印刷清晰，彩色夾頁展示瞭富蘭剋林的不少珍貴照片。可以說，這本《富蘭剋林傳》極具性及可讀性，它能夠啓發每一位讀者，是一本值得珍藏的好書。
媒體推薦：
“本書邏輯清晰、通俗易懂，準確地反應瞭富蘭剋林為人所共知的實用主義精神……本書將再次引發火爆的‘富蘭剋林熱’。”——《紐約時報》
“本書實屬之作……艾薩剋森敏銳地把握住瞭富蘭剋林這位在美國曆史上具有重要地位的天纔的本質。”——《齣版者周刊》
“本書是目前為止極具可讀性的有關富蘭剋林的傳記。”——《華盛頓郵報圖書世界》
“充滿活力、活潑有趣、貼近生活。”——《紐約客》
“本書考據詳實、筆法自然、通俗易懂，對富蘭剋林及其所處時代的把握極富洞見，同時又不乏驚人之語。若想瞭解美國精神是如何形成的，閱讀此書則大有裨益。”——《福布斯》

Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What’s more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege. That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn’t shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn’t shy from enumerating Franklin’s occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keeping with the iconoclastic nature of our time—none of which, however, stops him from considering Benjamin Franklin “the most accomplished American of his age,” and one of the most admirable of any era. And here’s one bit of proof: as a young man, Ben Franklin regularly went without food in order to buy books. His example, as always, is a good one—and this is just the book to buy with the proceeds from the grocery budget. 
Review
“The most readable full-length Franklin biography available.”  —The Washington Post Book World
“Energetic, entertaining, and worldly.”  —The New Yorker
“In its common sense, clarity and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin’s sly pragmatism.... This may be the book that most powerfully drives a new pendulum swing of the Franklin reputation.”   —The New York Times
“A thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle.”   —The New York Times Book Review

本傑明?富蘭剋林（Benjamin Franklin，1706.1.17~790.4.17），美國偉大的先驅者和美國民主締造者之一，知名的科學傢、發明傢、政治傢、外交傢、文學傢、實業傢，他也是美國獨立運動的領導人。他一生參與瞭美國多項重要文件的起草，包括《獨立宣言》及美國憲法。他曾說：這也是他一生的真實寫照。
Benjamin Franklin《富蘭剋林傳》的作者沃爾特?艾薩剋森是美國知名的傳記作傢，曾撰寫過《史蒂夫?喬布斯傳》《富蘭剋林傳》《基辛格傳》《愛因斯坦：生活和宇宙》等多部暢銷的傳記作品。在本書中，艾薩剋森憑藉其精湛的寫作功底，記錄瞭富蘭剋林的過人膽識及其傳奇般的成功人生。我們將看到，富蘭剋林——這位非常有魅力的美國國父是如何締造齣美國精神，創造齣屬於他自己的時代。
正如托馬斯?傑斐遜所言：“在我的一生中，能讓我佩服的人有三位：位是本傑明?富蘭剋林；第二位也是本傑明?富蘭剋林；第三位還是本傑明?富蘭剋林。富蘭剋林齣生時比我們中非常窮的人還要窮，但他具有不以自己的窮睏為恥的勇氣，並憑藉這勇氣成為他生活的時代和國傢中極偉大和齣色的人。”

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character. 
In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-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. 
Above all, Isaacson shows how Franklin’s unwavering faith in the wisdom of the common citizen and his instinctive appreciation for the possibilities of democracy helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class. 

沃爾特?艾薩剋森，美國知名的傳記作傢，曾獲得哈佛大學曆史與文學學士學位及牛津大學阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute）首席執行官，曆任美國有綫電視新聞網（CNN）董事長和《時代》雜誌總編。其主要作品有《史蒂夫?喬布斯傳》《基辛格傳》《愛因斯坦：生活和宇宙》等多部暢銷書，其中《愛因斯坦：生活和宇宙》曾榮獲美國國傢科學總院2008年度科學傳播圖書奬。
Walter Isaacson, the President of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Kissinger: A Biography and the co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.  

CHAPTER ONEBenjamin Franklin and the Invention of America
CHAPTER TWOPilgrim’s Progress: Boston, 1706-1723
CHAPTER THREEJourneyman: Philadelphia and London, 1723-1726
CHAPTER FOURPrinter: Philadelphia, 1726-1732
CHAPTER FIVEPublic Citizen: Philadelphia, 1731-1748
CHAPTER SIXScientist and Inventor: Philadelphia, 1744-1751
CHAPTER SEVENPolitician: Philadelphia, 1749-1756
CHAPTER EIGHTTroubled Waters: London, 1757-1762
CHAPTER NINEHome Leave: Philadelphia, 1763-1764
CHAPTER TENAgent Provocateur: London, 1765-1770
CHAPTER ELEVENRebel: London, 1771-1775
CHAPTER TWELVEIndependence: Philadelphia, 1775-1776
CHAPTER THIRTEENCourtier: Paris, 1776-1778
CHAPTER FOURTEENBon Vivant: Paris, 1778-1785
CHAPTER FIFTEENPeacemaker: Paris, 1778-1785
CHAPTER SIXTEENSage: Philadelphia, 1785-1790
CHAPTER SEVENTEENEpilogue
CHAPTER EIGHTEENConclusions
Cast of Characters
Chronology
Currency Conversions
Acknowledgments
Sources and Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Chapter One: Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America
His arrival in Philadelphia is one of the most famous scenes in autobiographical literature: the bedraggled 17-year-old runaway, cheeky yet with a pretense of humility, straggling off the boat and buying three puffy rolls as he wanders up Market Street. But wait a minute. There’s something more. Peel back a layer and we can see him as a 65-year-old wry observer, sitting in an English country house, writing this scene, pretending it’s part of a letter to his son, an illegitimate son who has become a royal governor with aristocratic pretensions and needs to be reminded of his humble roots.
A careful look at the manuscript peels back yet another layer. Inserted into the sentence about his pilgrim’s progress up Market Street is a phrase, written in the margin, in which he notes that he passed by the house of his future wife, Deborah Read, and that “she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward ridiculous appearance.” So here we have, in a brief paragraph, the multilayered character known so fondly to his author as Benjamin Franklin: as a young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self, and then through the memories later recounted by his wife. It’s all topped off with the old man’s deft little affirmation — “as I certainly did” — in which his self-deprecation barely cloaks the pride he felt regarding his remarkable rise in the world.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. George Washington’s colleagues found it hard to imagine touching the austere general on the shoulder, and we would find it even more so today. Jefferson and Adams are just as intimidating. But Ben Franklin, that ambitious urban entrepreneur, seems made of flesh rather than of marble, addressable b 華研原版 富蘭剋林傳 英文原版 一個美國人的生活 Benjamin Franklin 全英文版進口書 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書