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

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Written shortly after he became Biship of Hippo, "Confessions" highlights Augustine's childhood in Numidia and his riotous youth and early manhood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan.