Book of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Jill Lepore, Robin Miles

eAudio - 2013

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 t...his 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...

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Published
Recorded Books, Inc.
Language
English
Main Authors
Jill Lepore, Robin Miles
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size335 GB
Parts10
ISBN9781470384951
Release Date12/15/2013
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size335 GB
ISBN9781470384951
Release Date12/15/2013