{"product_id":"books-book-of-ages-by-jill-lepore","title":"Book of Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBenjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his sister spent her life caring for her children. They left very different traces behind. Making use of an amazing 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 woman but an entire world--a world usually lost to history. Lepore's life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672261648657,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780307958341.jpg?v=1781518925","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-book-of-ages-by-jill-lepore","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}