OBJECTIVELY WALTER ISAACSON’S BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CAN UNQUESTIONABLY

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OBJECTIVELY WALTER ISAACSON’S BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CAN UNQUESTIONABLY



Objectively, every little emphasis on fairness certainly Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin can radically be inc

Objectively, Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin can unquestionably be included among the exclusive group of great biographies. As one reads this book, he or she has a sense that they are in direct contact with Benjamin Franklin. It’s immediately apparent that there was a lot more than one Ben Franklin. There’s Ben Franklin, the inventor, and what an inventor he was, and how prescient. He was a newspaper publisher and certainly he was a great one. He was a politician and masterful especially in his conduct of foreign affairs. The manner in which he represented the United States was outstanding. He was a pacifist at heart. He tried so hard to reconcile the young colonists and Great Britain. He didn’t want the revolution. He did everything to avoid it. The selfish tenacity of the British powers was too overwhelming which then, of course, encouraged Franklin to bow to reality and become a leader in the fight with the colonists for freedom. Finally, he was certainly one of the most important contributors to the Declaration of Independence.


To Mr. Isaacson’s credit, after one has concluded the reading of this biography, he or she can have a sense that they have had an intimate relationship with Benjamin Franklin, and that they really know Franklin. Isaacson brings him to life. It’s as if one has a sense that as he or she is reading this biography that they are shaking hands with Franklin. His prescience puts Franklin into a class all by himself. He headed up the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery. Though this is many decades prior to Abraham Lincoln, I cite this paragraph which is indicative of an exceptionally bright mind with an ability to peregrinate from altruistic commitment to a recognition of what is really required for implementation of the objective.


“One of the arguments against immediate abolition, which Franklin had heretofore accepted, was that it was not practical or safe to free hundreds of thousands of adult slaves into a society for which they were not prepared. (There were about seven hundred thousand slaves in the United States out of a total population of four million in 1790.) So his abolition society dedicated itself not only to freeing slaves but also to helping them become good citizens. “Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils,” Franklin wrote in a November 1789 address to the public from the society. “The unhappy man, who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains that bind his body do also fetter his intellectual faculties and impair the social affections of his heart.”








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