Everything we are as a nation you can sort of derive that to Benjamin Franklin, I think, His homespun humor, his ingenuity, his sort of urban industriousness. But also, everything he did helped create what we are. WALTER ISAACSON: He is so quintessentially American. JUDY WOODRUFF: Walter Isaacson, it's Benjamin Franklin, and you put in the title, "An American Life." Why did you do that? The following is an edited transcript of the interview: I talked with Isaacson this week about the book and what Franklin might think of America today. The book, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, takes an in-depth look at how the man considered one of the greatest and most accomplished of American founders helped define the kind of society America would become. His subject is the writer, philosopher and scientist Benjamin Franklin.
The author is former TIME magazine and CNN executive Walter Isaacson. WASHINGTON (CNN) - A biography hitting the bookstores this week shines new light on one of the more famous and more misunderstood of America's Founding Fathers.
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