Author: Jim Blackburn

Jim Blackburn is an author, journalist, editor, and historian. He grew up in Tuckerton, NJ and studied at Bard College. He is currently pursuing an MA at Wesleyan University. The biography Patriot Privateer: The Life & Times of Ebenezer Tucker is forthcoming spring 2015.

Reviews Posted on April 25, 2014January 2, 2015

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of
Jane Franklin

Book Review: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore. Knopf, 464 pp., Hardcover $27.95|Paperback $16.95|eBook $13.99 “One Half of the World does not know how the Other Half lives,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in his popular Poor Richard’s Almanack. It is a phrase that is open to many interpretations. Jacob […]

by Jim Blackburn