The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this thorough biography of Americas first Renaissance man (The Washington Post) by the two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat,