Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's Franklin: printer, scientist, diplomat, inventor of American pragmatism, and his thirteen virtues and the daily ledger. Readable and full of the practical wisdom Franklin lived.
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Three things you will actually use
- Form a mastermind; Franklin did at twenty-one.
- Track your virtues in a ledger.
- Be useful.
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Read the chapters on the Junto and the virtues.
Our verdict
Franklin, in full.
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