Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNPR - 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.
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/01/2014
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.25w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780307948830
ISBN10: 0307948838
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
About the Author
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.