Jane Kamensky. (2008). Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & A Lady in Disguise. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Jane Kamensky. 2008. Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & A Lady in Disguise. Blackstone Publishing.

Jane Kamensky, Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & A Lady in Disguise. Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

Jane Kamensky. Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & A Lady in Disguise. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

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     Jane Kamensky is a professor of American history and chair of the History Department at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Exchange Artist and Governing the Tongue, among other books. Her scholarship has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is currently writing a biography of the eighteenth-century American portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart. She lives in Cambridge,Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.

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     Jill Lepore, a New York Times bestselling author, is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her many books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness, short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Set in boisterous Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Peopled not only with the celebrated Sons of Liberty but also with revolutionary Boston's unsung inhabitants, it tells the story of Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and his spirited apprentice, Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who has disguised herself as a boy, Francis Weston.

When Boston's revolutionary leader, Samuel Bradstreet, dies suddenly on the day Jameson was to paint his portrait, Bradstreet's slaves are accused of murder. Jameson, Weston, and the brilliant doctor Ignatius Alexander set out to determine the truth. What they discover turns topsy-turvy everything you thought you knew about the Founding Fathers.

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   • content: “A beautifully crafted debut historical novel that is at once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant sociological and political portrait of a turbulent time.”
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   • content: John Lee and Cassandra Campbell are delightful in this witty historical novel, chock full of well-researched and amusing tidbits of life in eighteenth-century Boston. In alternating chapters, we meet Scottish rogue Stewart Jameson, a portrait painter who's run away from his creditors in Edinburgh, and Fanny Easton, a young girl with a sordid past who disguises herself as a boy and becomes Jamie's apprentice. Lee has Jamie's raffish attitude and moral dilemma down pat, and Campbell nicely captures Fanny's predicament as she struggles to remember that she's a boy. Authors Kamensky and Lepore, both historians, offer clever conversations and situations involving politics, growing unrest in the Colonies, slavery, women's rights, romance, and even murder. Lee and Campbell keep things light and entertaining. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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     August 4, 2008
     Professors Kamensky and Lepore try for playful historical romance, but deliver instead a novel that is, if rich in period detail, also overwrought, predictably plotted and at times embarrassingly purple. The year is 1764 and portrait painter Stewart Jameson has been chased by debtors from his native Scotland to Boston, where he quickly opens shop and takes an apprentice, the half-starved orphan, Francis Weston, who turns out to be Fanny Easton, the disgraced daughter of one of Boston’s leading citizens. Stewart does a good business with Boston’s better class, which puts Stewart and Fanny in a good position to solve the murder of an abolitionist. They are joined at this task by Stewart’s old friend from Edinburgh, Dr. Ignatius Alexander, a university-trained runaway slave. The mystery plays out with little surprise; rather, the narrative is driven by Alexander’s hatred of slavery and by Stewart and Fanny’s tawdry relationship. Unfortunately, however, both of these lines prove awkward, and while students of the era may find enough period detail to carry them through, the cheesy plot and facile characterizations are likely to turn off most readers.

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