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发表于2024-11-10
Benjamin Franklin pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical -- though not most profound -- political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism. But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.
沃爾特·艾薩剋森:阿斯彭研究所(Aspen Ititute)執行總裁,曾任有綫新聞電視網(CNN)主席和《時代》(Time)周刊總編。他的著作有《史蒂夫·喬布斯傳》《富蘭剋林傳》(Benjamin Franklin:An American Life)和《基辛格傳》(Kissinger:A Biography)等。
前半部讀得很吃力,因為那段曆史(在美國的部分)實在是不熟悉,但是作者的視角很有意思,Issacson基本上是以Franklin來說美國獨特的精神,對於曆史事件的意義反而沒有那麼重視。對美國精神的詮釋這點很成功,很有意思的一本書。
評分太巨細靡遺瞭,沒法耐心一字一句看,其實他寫的《喬布斯傳》也有這個毛病。
評分前半部讀得很吃力,因為那段曆史(在美國的部分)實在是不熟悉,但是作者的視角很有意思,Issacson基本上是以Franklin來說美國獨特的精神,對於曆史事件的意義反而沒有那麼重視。對美國精神的詮釋這點很成功,很有意思的一本書。
評分太巨細靡遺瞭,沒法耐心一字一句看,其實他寫的《喬布斯傳》也有這個毛病。
評分上個星期終於啃完瞭這本用詞書麵、生僻、古老的書,間間斷斷曆時數個月。富蘭剋林確實是個務實、多纔、勤奮的人,美國有今天他的功勞和精神起瞭不小的作用,尤其是中産階級立國和三權分立妥協的思想,“兩個魔鬼爭奪比一個獨裁者更好”。
每当有人说起富兰克林,我就想到那个牵着风筝把雷电引向实验室的科学家。他是一个穷鬼,一个遗腹子,一个全才。 “我的奋斗”或许不是富兰克林想说的,他写这本书的的最初目的是为了自己的孩子,用自己的经历给后代一个训诫。 富兰克林的初衷让我想到了颜之推和傅雷,...
評分除了这本传记,还看了他的自传。自传有点絮絮叨叨,没有一些历史知识,也难理解殖民地、业主、英国政府、州长、州议会各自的利益诉求和博弈。建议还是读这本,忠于自传,也更完整易读。 在中国人的眼里,人生的最高境界应该是“立德、立功、立言”。我想这个美国人达到了“三...
評分没有宏大的野心,有的只是对生活中各种细节的思考,以及对此提出改进的方法,并使之付诸行动的执行力,富兰克林关注的是人们生活中的点点滴滴,是为了使他生活的世界更便利、更友善的方方面面,他的自律、原则使他总能以饱满的热情投入到各种事务中去; 顺应形势,但不随波逐流...
評分Benjamin Franklin pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024