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The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Knopf
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 0307958345
EAN: 9780307958341
Kindle: B00C8S9VAM
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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