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December 29, 2009
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Blindspot
A Novel
Written by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52620-3 (0-385-52620-2)

“Tis a small canvas, this Boston,” muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America’s far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

Exam Copy
Blindspot
A Novel
Written by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore


Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52619-7 (0-385-52619-9)

“Tis a small canvas, this Boston,” muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America’s far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

Exam Copy
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Written by Jill Lepore


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3226-6 (1-4000-3226-1)

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner


Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Written by Jill Lepore


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70408-6 (0-375-70408-6)

What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.

In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Name of War
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Written by Jill Lepore


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 27, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70262-4 (0-375-70262-8)

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip’s War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indians—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
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