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Cover of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson · 2003
Mentioned 14 times across 6 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline14 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Financing In The AI Boom: Masters in Business with Bob Michele
Masters in Business · Oct 2026
“I've always wanted to read Walter Isaacson's Ben Franklin and I I just finished that up and and that was a great read”
Inside Ryan Holiday’s $250K Reading List
The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“His book on Benjamin Franklin, also incredibly successful”
A Wave of Redemptions (EP. 454)
Animal Spirits Podcast · Mar 2026
“I tried Benjamin Franklin or Arthur Esrickson. Listen, some great information. He was a great man developing his philosophy. I just found myself mind-numbingly bored”
2024
#762: Coach George Raveling and Claire Hughes Johnson
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2024
“so I then I see he's done a book on Benjamin Franklin. He's done a book on on Einstein and uh subsequently Kissinger and others. So I go to the bookstore and I buy the Benjamin Franklin book”
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
My First Million · Jul 2024
“and all I thought his biography by Walter Isaacson I f I thought it fucking sucked”
2022
#283 Andrew Carnegie
Founders · Dec 2022
“the biography of Benjamin Franklin written by Walter Isaacson”
Steve Jobs's Heroes
Founders · Jun 2022
“He said, No, I didn't read business books. I read biographies. He's like I looked for mentors in historical context, books basically. I read biographies and I thought they were helpful and he talks about reading b biography of Benjamin Franklin”
#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)
Founders · May 2022
“Now let's go to Isaacson's Walter Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin”
Steve Jobs and His Heroes
Founders · Apr 2022
“he talks about reading b biography of Benjamin Franklin”
#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)
Founders · Feb 2022
“This is Walter Isaacson writing in Benjamin Franklin's biography”
2021
#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
Founders · Jul 2021
“Benjamin Franklin book. by Walter Isaacson. I think that's founders number one fifteen”
#503: Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2021
“Benjamin Franklin, an American Life”
2020
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Founders · Dec 2020
“I did his uh podcast on his book, uh by Ben American uh Benjamin Franklin, American Life”
2019
#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Founders · Mar 2019
“He s then he talked about uh he said, I liked both Franklin's autobiography, which is the book we're covering today, and the biography by Isaacson. That's Walter Isaacson, the author”