The Deadline
Book description
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional…
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Jill Lapore’s essays startle, offering unexpected angles on topics I thought I understood. As an example, she enriched my insights into this country’s founding by profiling Benjamin Franklin’s sister. Lapore possesses a joyful curiosity and expansive intelligence.
The essays may seem diverse and unrelated, but I longed for each new evocation.
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