The Story of America, 2012) masterfully formulates the story of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, who will be virtually unknown to many readers, using only a few of her letters and a small archive of births and deaths. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them. 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. Lisa Lepore, director of library services at Braille Institute Los Angeles, stands in front of a painted mural created by Megan Whitmarsh and Carla Tome. New Yorker writer Lepore (History/Harvard Univ. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. 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. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.īenjamin 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.

Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. But Book of Ages will make a splash, because Lepore has given us a history that. Jane : 1537-1727 - Her book : 1727-1757 - Letters : 1758-1775 - History : 1775-1793 - Remains : 1794- Appendices. Lepore also credits historian Carl Van Doren, whose own 1950 book about Jane Franklin made almost no splash. 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. Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin.

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