The Arroyo Seco Book Club will be reading Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson as our June book. This biography of the famous inventor and American revolutionary is described as follows by the lovely folks at Amazon:
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.While we might quibble at some of that description the book nevertheless promises to be an interesting look at a fascinating man. Pick up a copy from the library and plan to join us for discussion on June 23 at 3:00.
