Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Paperback

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR ""Time"" Magazine ""The Washington Post"" ""Entertainment Weekly"" ""The Boston Globe"" A ""NEW YORK TIMES"" NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother s fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary woman but an entire world.""

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Jill Lepore

istorică americană · n. 1966

Jill Lepore este o istorică și jurnalistă americană. Este profesoara David Woods Kemper '41 de Istorie Americană la Universitatea Harvard și scriitoare la The New Yorker, unde contribuie din 2005. Scrie despre istoria, dreptul, literatura și politica Statelor Unite.