{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-isaacson-scientific-american-wit-and-wisdom-free-shipping","title":"Benjamin Franklin - Isaacson, Scientific American, Wit and Wisdom, FREE Shipping","description":"\u003cspan id=\"docs-internal-guid-c1bbcf41-7fff-f753-0663-ae022d298b3b\"\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   A superb and thematically complete 3-book Benjamin Franklin bundle — pairing Walter Isaacson's acclaimed definitive biography with Joyce Chaplin's authoritative study of Franklin as America's first great scientist and a delightful collection of his wit and wisdom — together forming the ideal and most comprehensive Franklin reading collection available. This is an outstanding lot for American history enthusiasts, Founding Fathers collectors, history of science readers, and anyone captivated by the most versatile, brilliant, and endlessly fascinating figure of colonial and revolutionary America. Walter Isaacson — the celebrated biographer of Einstein and Steve Jobs — brings the same penetrating intelligence and narrative gift to Franklin that made his other biographies international bestsellers, and together with the Chaplin scientific study and the wit and wisdom anthology this lot covers every essential dimension of one of history's most extraordinary human beings.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cul style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\"\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (New York Times Bestseller, Author of Einstein and Steve Jobs)\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     — The definitive modern biography of Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson — America's most celebrated popular biographer — tracing Franklin's extraordinary life from his humble Boston origins through his years as printer, scientist, philosopher, diplomat, and Founding Father with the penetrating insight, vivid narrative, and balanced judgment that made this a New York Times bestseller and the standard one-volume Franklin biography. Praised as a thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincing, and engaging chronicle by the\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     New York Times Book Review\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     , this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the full depth and breadth of Franklin's extraordinary contributions to American civilization.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce E. Chaplin\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     — A groundbreaking and authoritative scholarly study of Franklin as scientist — the dimension of his genius that shaped everything else he did and that is most often overshadowed by his political and diplomatic achievements. Chaplin — a Harvard historian of science — reveals Franklin as a rigorous, original, and internationally celebrated natural philosopher whose electrical experiments and scientific theories made him the most famous American in the world before the Revolution and whose scientific habits of mind informed every dimension of his remarkable career.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     — A delightful and endlessly quotable collection of Franklin's most celebrated aphorisms, observations, and witticisms — drawn from\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Poor Richard's Almanack\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     , his letters, autobiography, and public writings — showcasing the legendary humor, practical wisdom, and sharp intelligence that made Franklin the most beloved and quotable figure of the American Enlightenment. An ideal companion volume to the two serious biographies and a wonderful standalone gift for anyone who appreciates American wit and wisdom at its finest.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003c\/ul\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n","brand":"Unbranded","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48581284528360,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/2062\/1032\/files\/10_9f23ba37-3411-4f25-b40b-e6767eac1bb6.png?v=1779471835","url":"https:\/\/www.book-lots.com\/products\/benjamin-franklin-isaacson-scientific-american-wit-and-wisdom-free-shipping","provider":"Book Lots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}