Books by Jill Lepore
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review 1: Really glad I read this. The author was inspired by her mother's death and most of the chapters began as essays in The New Yorker. Jill Lepore traces the history of American ideas about life and death. The fascinating - sometimes quirky facts - she provides illustrate her talent...
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review 1: Jill Lepore is a scholar who has a gift for writing about history. You don't have to be a specialist to enjoy reading her books or the articles on American history she writes as a New Yorker staff writer. In fact, it was her appealing article there about how she came to write abo...
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review 1: I wondered what LePore could say about the history of Wonder Woman that Les Daniels did not cover in his book "Wonder Woman: The Complete History" (art directed by the genius Chip Kidd). The answer is: the same, only in more detail and with a thick coat of feminist/cultural histo...