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