These Truths (a History Of The United States)

By (author) Lepore, Jill
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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history
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Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from immigrants and from people who have fought to end immigration. "A nation born in contradiction will fight forever over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes. “Clear in purpose and elegant in design" (TLS), These Truths observes, "The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden.” "It can’t be shirked. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.
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"This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free... excellent book"
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"... Jill Lepore’s These Truths may restore faith in American ideals."
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"…clear-eyed history of the country."
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"…one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy."
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"I’m ending the year back in the real world though, reading the most fabulously written history of the USA called These Truths by Jill Lepore."
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"This is a tale told with the verve of a great teacher, the modulated literary style of a high-class novelist and the generous, careful eye of a historian who treats her sources as precious artefacts not as subjects for plunder."
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"The most honest and unflinching account of the American story I’ve ever read"
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"A The New York Times Bestseller"
Biographical note:
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.