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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin de Jill Lepore

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Autor Jill Lepore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2014

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National Book Awards (2013), Lukas Prize Project (2014)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NPR "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."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780307948830
ISBN-10: 0307948838
Pagini: 442
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

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.

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"By restoring Jane so vividly to the historical record, Lepore provides a fresh, personal perspective on Benjamin. And so extraordinarily demanding was her research, even the appendixes in Lepore's vibrantly enlightening biography are dramatic....Lepore's stature grows with each book, and this first telling of a remarkable American story, supported by a national tour and generous print run, is destined for an even greater readership." --Donna Seaman, "Booklist "(starred review)
"New Yorker writer Lepore 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....Jane Franklin was an amazing woman who raised her children and grandchildren while still having the time to read and think for herself. We can only see into her mind because her correspondent was famous and because a vastly talented biographer reassembled her for us." --"Kirkus "(starred review)
"This book is an important, inspiring portrait of a determined and faith-filled woman who just happened to be the sister of a big shot. It will be enjoyed by all." --"Library Journal" (starred review)
"Jane Franklin's indomitable voice and hungry, searching intellect shine through these pages; she will not be forgotten, and the world is richer for it." --"Time Magazine, " Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year
"Luminous....Lepore gives us a woman in the flesh, with no hints and hedges about what she must, or might, have felt....Jane emerges as witty, curious, and resilient in the face of unimaginable grief, yet she is not an unsung hero of the revolution, a forgotten Abigail Adams. Her importance, as Lepore's portrait memorably shows, lies in her ordinariness--her learning thwarted by circumstance, but her intelligence shaped by her uniquely female experience. We may know about Jane Franklin only because of her famous brother, but he is not why she matters."
**"The New York Times" 100 Notable Books of 2013**
**Barnes and Noble Best Books of 2013**
**"Kirkus" Best Books of 2013**
**"Time Magazine" #1 Nonfiction Book of 2013**
**"The Week" Best Nonfiction Books of 2013**
"Jane Franklin's indomitable voice and hungry, searching intellect shine through these pages; she will not be forgotten, and the world is richer for it." --"Time Magazine, " Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year
"Luminous....Lepore gives us a woman in the flesh, with no hints and hedges about what she must, or might, have felt....Jane emerges as witty, curious, and resilient in the face of unimaginable grief, yet she is not an unsung hero of the revolution, a forgotten Abigail Adams. Her importance, as Lepore's portrait memorably shows, lies in her ordinariness--her learning thwarted by circumstance, but her intelligence shaped by her uniquely female experience. We may know about Jane Franklin only because of her famous brother, but he is not why she matters." --Joanna Scutts, "Washington Post
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"As she stitches together Jane's story, Lepore gives us a side of Benjamin Franklin we have never seen--an evocative look at what life was like for most 18th-century women." --Tina Jordan, "Entertainment Weekly"
""Book of Ages" is the name of Lepore's extraordinary new book about Jane Franklin, but to call it simply a biography would be like calling Ben's experiments with electricity mere kite flying....The end product is thrilling--an example of how a gifted scholar and writer can lift the obscure out of silence. In so doing, Lepore enriches our sense of everyday life and relationships and conversational styles in Colonial America. . . . The brilliance of Lepore's book is that plain Jane's story becomes every bit as gripping--and, in its own way, important--as Big Ben's public triumphs." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR
"In this beautifully written double biography, Lepore brings into focus not just the life of Jane Franklin Mec

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NPR - "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.

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