Walter Isaacson
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"Walter Isaacson" is an American writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN/Cable News Network (CNN) and the Managing Editor of Time magazine/Time. He has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger.

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.

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