Carte - Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Paperback/Jill Lepore

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."