![]() ![]() ![]() After examining the large body of existing Franklin scholarship as skillfully and critically as any scholar, Isaacson admits that his subject always "winks at us" to keep us at bay-which of course is one reason why he's so fascinating. The oldest, most distinctive and multifaceted of the founders, Franklin remains as mysterious as Jefferson. Isaacson (now president of the Aspen Institute, he is the former chairman of CNN and a Henry Kissinger biographer) has a keen eye for the genius of a man whose fingerprints lie everywhere in our history. How do the two books differ? Isaacson's is more detailed it lingers over such matters as the nature of Franklin's complex family circumstances and his relations with others, and it pays closer attention to each of his extraordinary achievements. Isaacson's longer biography easily holds its own. Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan's justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin, ![]()
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