The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinModern · History, Biography, Nonfiction
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
2000 · 759 pages · Nonfiction
42
Modern
★ 4.11 on Goodreads · 23K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 19 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (2001). 4.11★ from 23K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
42Must-Read Score
- Readers66 out of 100 · counts 40%+30
- Critics30 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+11
- Bestseller8 out of 100 · counts 14%+1
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #117 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #128 of the 154 history books we rank
- #355 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #794 of the 1,404 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (2001)
Reads as
True story
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