Armed with the facts of what happened before, we are better able to approach our collective task of figuring out what should happen now. “Astounding… has assembled evidence of an America that was better than some thought, worse than almost anyone imagined, and weirder than most serious history books ever convey. Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers’ questions about who we are as a nation.”
“An ambitious and provocative attempt to interpret American history as an effort to fulfill and maintain certain fundamental principles. “This thought-provoking and fascinating book stands to become the definitive one-volume U.S. “A splendid rendering-filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope-that will please Lepore’s readers immensely and win her many new ones.” By engaging with our country's painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.” “Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and These Truths is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. “ one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.” The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
“This sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion.” Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review “rilliant…insightful…It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment.”
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