Ebook {Epub PDF} Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore

 · 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. But in Jill Lepore’s meticulously constructed biography, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, recently placed on the long list of nominees for the National Book Award in nonfiction, this moon casts a beguiling www.doorway.rutently first rate.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times.4/5(). “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 www.doorway.ru 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 Cited by:

Book of Ages.: Jill Lepore. Alfred A. Knopf, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 21 Reviews. 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. Lepore, Jill, [date] Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin / Jill Lepore.—First Edition. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1. Mecom, Jane, 2. Franklin, Benjamin, 3. Women—United States—Social conditions—18th century. 4. Boston (Mass.)—Biography. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin () is a biography of the eighteenth-century figure Jane Franklin Mecom by American historian Jill Lepore. The youngest sister of the inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin, Jane Franklin was his closest confidant.

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. Book of Ages.: Jill Lepore. The subtitle of Book of Ages, The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, is what drew me to request this book. Jane was Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, and as they were close in age they were also close in spirit. This, however, is a cautionary tale about the differences between them, not in intelligence, but in opportunities. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin: Author: Jill Lepore: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: , Length.