A chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine, Isaacson's 2003 biography of Franklin is balanced and tremendously readable, but somewhat facile the reader doesn't really get to know the man under the myths, though he or she will learn an awful lot about this complicated Founding Father's activities and relationships. He also had mostly poor or at best cool relations with his own family, carried on oral and epistolary flirtations with a number of younger women, and changed his mind about a number of significant issues (mostly for the better). He lived a long life for his time, invented many useful tools as well as proved the connection between electricity and lightning, was the country's national postmaster as well as the publisher of the first novel to appear in the colonies, served his homeland as a diplomat to England and France, and accomplished a bewildering number of other things. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time.

Franklin was 81, nearly twice as old as every other delegate, and as States argued about what. Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and professor. Born in 1706, apprenticed as a printer to his older brother James at age 12, Benjamin Franklin was already publishing pseudonymous satires by the age of 16. Isaacson told a story about Franklin at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia.

Franklin isaacson