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Book of Ages : The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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. From the Hardcover edition
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jill Lepore
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307958358
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (88 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14