Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
National Book Award Finalist
From 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. Benjamin 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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780307958341 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307958345 |
| Title | Book of Ages |
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2013-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2014, Commended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2013 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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