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  2. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson.Published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster, the biographical work details the life and times of prominent U.S. statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

  3. Walter Isaacson - Wikipedia

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    Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour ...

  4. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of ...

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    Historian Walter Isaacson writes that Franklin's theory was empirically based on the population data during his day. Franklin's reasoning was essentially correct in that America's population continued to double every twenty years, surpassing England's population in the 1850s, and continued until the frontier era ended in the early 1900s. [7]

  5. Elon Musk (Isaacson book) - Wikipedia

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    Elon Musk is an authorized biography of American business magnate and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk.The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

  6. Let's put a stake in the 'great man' biography — starting ...

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    Call it the 'Isaacson Accord': the agreement behind Walter Isaacson biographies, including 'Elon Musk,' to leave the assumption of difficult genius untouched.

  7. Opinion: ‘Elon Musk’ perpetuates this toxic myth about genius

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    Walter Isaacson’s biography ‘Elon Musk’ is more interested in perpetuating toxic myths about genius than in exploring Musk’s chaotic career or the culture and politics that made it ...

  8. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    He considers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, "by far the best" and "a model of scholarly editing". [3] Biographer Walter Isaacson has referred to The Papers of Benjamin Franklin as "definitive and extraordinary" noting that while several publications of Franklin's papers exist, this ongoing publication is the most complete and scholarly. [4]

  9. The biggest ideas and pettiest rages in Walter Isaacson's ...

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    Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk distilled, from fierce mood swings and Ukraine intervention to his 'dumb' Pelosi tweet and that time he had the 405 repainted.