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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment. (Carson to her mother, Freeman to her husband), one to be read privately, and likely destined for the “Strong box”—their. Read 199 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. By Jill Lepore Illustrated. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American. Jill Lepore: “I wanted to tell Jane Franklin’s story as a way to ask readers to think about how history gets written: what gets saved and what gets lost. Jill Lepore on Baby Doe, Jennifer Gallison, the Department of Children and Families, and the child-protection movement. 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His vision of the future may not pan out for the platform, but that vision represents what historian Jill Lepore calls 'extreme capitalism. history in its many complexities—is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and host of the podcast The Last Archive. Telling the story of the husband showering his wife. Joe Gould’s Teeth, Lepore’s eleventh book in 18 years, takes for its subject a man who could not stop writing, and who certainly thought of himself (despite much evidence to the contrary) as a. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Constitution 101 with Jill Lepore. Abstract: There's a lot of talk these days about the ideals of the American Revolution, but historian Jill Lepore says the Tea Party isn't the first to yearn for the past. Illustration by Brian Stauffer. 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