{"product_id":"9780307958341","title":"Book of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin - Lepore, Jill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eBook of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin\u003c\/u\u003e by Lepore, Jill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Alfred A. Knopf, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nBenjamin 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 this 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 the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf, 2013","offers":[{"title":"Book of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin \/ Very Good","offer_id":53250722398500,"sku":"9780307958341VG","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_1158de5f-0761-458a-adcd-3536a51a81a2.jpg?v=1781792924","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780307958341","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}