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National Book Award Finalist From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and

A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.

"The ever-changing life cycles of man revealed by the famous (and infamous) throughout history"--Jacket subtitle.

"People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. . . . I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any com