Jill Lepore

Get a new perspective on our Founding Fathers when historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore present their exuberant new novel Blindspot. Written in the tradition of 18th-century novels like Moll Flanders, Blindspot is set on the eve of the American Revolution, in a world full of painting, passion, and ... (more)politics. Historically accurate yet outrageously witty, Blindspot follows two portrait painters who are determined to solve the murder of Samuel Bradstreet, a Boston revolutionary leader who died suddenly on the day they were scheduled to paint his likeness. Longtime friends Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore have great fun with this book, which turns topsy-turvy everything readers ever learned about the Founding Fathers. Jane Kamensky is Professor of American History and chair of the History Department at Brandeis University, and is the author of The Exchange Artist. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she is chair of the History and Literature program. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her most recent book, New York Burning, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.