Jane Kamensky, Author, Jill Lepore, Author . Spiegel & Grau $24.95 (500p) ISBN 978-0-385-52619-7
Professors Kamensky and Lepore try for playful historical romance, but deliver instead a novel that is, if rich in period detail, also overwrought, predictably plotted and at times embarrassingly purple. The year is 1764 and portrait painter Stewart
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Jill Lepore, Author . Knopf $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-40449-8
In her latest effort, historian Lepore (winner of the Bancroft Prize for The Name of War) explores the significant and occasionally unsettling ways language was used to define national character and boundaries in the early American republic....
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Jill Lepore, Author . Knopf $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4029-2
With riveting prose and a richly imagined re-creation of a horrible but little-studied event, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Lepore (The Name of War: King Philip's
War and the Origins of American Identity
) deftly recounts the...
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Jill Lepore, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-44686-6
In King Philip's War of 1675, Algonquian Indians decimated more than half of the towns in New England, while the British massacred Indian settlements and shipped thousands of Algonquians out of the colonies as slaves. Though academic in style, this...
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Jill Lepore. Knopf, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59299-6
In the 19th century, a Milton Bradley version of the British board game the Mansion of Happiness (known in recent decades as Life) became an enduring staple of American homes. The game raised in a playful way three perennial questions: how does life
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Jill Lepore. Princeton Univ, $27.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-691-15399-5
“I wanted to try to explain how history works, and how it’s different from politics,” states Harvard history professor Lepore (The Mansion of Happiness), introducing her collection of essays, almost all previously published in the New Yorker....
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Jill Lepore. Knopf, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-307-95834-1
Younger sister of the estimable Benjamin, Jane Franklin was born in Boston in 1712 and passed 82 years later. Doting brother Ben tutored the little girl in reading and writing—until he ran away from home at age 17—and she learned housewifery from...
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Jill Lepore. Knopf, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-94758-6
This disjointed true-life detective tale from Lepore (The Secret History of Wonder Woman) digs into the story of Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village eccentric who was introduced to the world by Joseph Mitchell’s 1942 New Yorker profile, “Professor Sea...
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Jill Lepore, Author, Beth McDonald, Read by HighBridge Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-968-0
Juilliard graduate and Broadway actress McDonald offers a wry and meaty interpretation of Lepore's intense social history of the Manhattan slave uprising of 1741. That winter, black and Spanish slaves allegedly set 10 fires around the city,...
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Jill Lepore. Norton, $39.95 (960p) ISBN 978-0-393-63524-9
The principles of the Declaration of Independence get betrayed, fought over, and sometimes fulfilled in this probing political history of the Unites States. Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Lepore (Book of Ages) explores how ideals of liberty,
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Jill Lepore. Liveright, $16.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-63149-641-7
In this somewhat underdeveloped “long essay,” historian Lepore (These Truths) sets out to summarize nationalism for a lay audience and rally historians to fight against its encroaching presence in American life. She takes readers through a history...
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Jill Lepore. Liveright, $28.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-63149-610-3
In this colorful yet disjointed history, New Yorker writer Lepore (These Truths) traces present-day obsessions with data mining and predictive analytics to a Cold War–era market research firm. Founded by advertising executive Edward Greenfield and...
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