{"product_id":"2940013805774","title":"Poor Richard's Lament: A Most Timely Tale","description":"What if Ben Franklin came back to life?  What if everything depended on it?  Poor Richard's Lament is \"A re-imagining of Benjamin Franklin you will not soon forget...\" says Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Steve jobs.  But this is also more than a re-imagining of Franklin. It is a re-imagining of America itself. Where did the cultural legacy of Ben Franklin go wrong? We come to understand this, even as Franklin himself comes to self-realization in this book, during his contentious \"celestial trial\" and during his dramatic reintroduction into 21st-century America. Interwoven into the main story is a second, beginning in the red-carpeted parlors of the West Wing of the White House and ending in the blood-stained streets of West Philadelphia. Eventually, the parallel stories collide, like massive tectonic plates, in a stunning series of shocks and aftershocks. What emerges is a more profound understanding of our culture and a vision of a better America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing in the traditions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, with intimations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Poor Richard’s Lament, nine years in the making, is an intricately woven, ultimately uplifting tale of revelation and redemption. At the end, a better country emerges.","brand":"Hobblebush Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079999701232,"sku":"2940013805774","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013805774_p0.jpg?v=1763590476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013805774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}