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Author JILL LEPORE talks about her latest book on Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane. Lepore is the History and Literature department chair at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, and her 2005 book New York Burning: Liberty and Slavery in an Eighteenth Century City was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Filmed by Ann S. Kim.
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Joy Horowitz lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her books include Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter’s Story (1996) and The Poisoning of an American High School (2007).
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