Lepore Jill 1966 (1 results)

good dust-jacket, light wear and small tear along flap, cover price $27.95, good lightly used green and light green hardcover, small splotch on top edge of a couple of pages, a few finger marks, some old price label residue. LEPORE, JILL. Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, 3d printing, xiv, 442pp., . A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States., "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.". ISBN 9780307958341.