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Announcement of presentation by Jill Lepore



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HISTORIAN JILL LEPORE TO DISCUSS HER NEW BOOK AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
ON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26

 Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore will discuss A Is for American:
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (Knopf, 2002) at
the Library of Congress at 6:45 p.m., Tuesday Feb. 26, in the Mumford
Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence
Ave. S.E.   Part of the Center for the Book's "Books & Beyond" author
series, the program is free and open to the public.  No tickets are
required.  The event is cosponsored with the Library's Manuscript
Division and the American Antiquarian Society, located in Worcester, MA.

 A Is for American is a fascinating, well-illustrated account of how
language was used in the early American Republic to define national
character and shape national boundaries.  An Alternate Selection of the
History Book Club, its official publication date is February 14.

Jill Lepore is associate professor of history at Boston University and
the author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of
American Identity (Knopf, 1998), which won the Bancroft and Ralph Waldo
Emerson Prizes and other awards.  She is cofounder and coeditor of
Common-Place, an online history magazine (www.common-place.org).
sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History.
In her research for A Is For American, Ms. Lepore used several
collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, in
particular the papers of Alexander Graham Bell,, Noah Webster, Samuel
Morse, William Thornton, and the Gallaudet  family.   The American
Antiquarian Society, one of the cosponsors of Ms. Lepore's talk, is a
founding partner of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate
of the Center for the Book.

 The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was established in
1977 to stimulate public interest in books, reading, and libraries.  For
information about its program and the activities of is affiliated
centers in 44 states and the District of Columbia, visit its Web site at
<http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/>

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