Jill Lepore Books
Encounters in the New World
By Jill Lepore
A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Includes maps, journals, advert...
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
By Jill Lepore
A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
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Book of Ages
By 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 mos...
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
By Jill Lepore
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
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The Name of War
By Jill Lepore
BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in A...
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A Is for American
By Jill Lepore
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and ninet...
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.“Everything you mig...
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