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These Truths: A History of the United States -- Jill Lepore - Paperback

Description: Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation's truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence Book and Mortar Record Store These Truths: A History of the United States -- Jill Lepore 18.24 Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation's truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. "A nation born in contradiction... will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. Author: Jill Lepore Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 10/01/2019 Pages: 960 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 2.00lbs Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d ISBN: 9780393357424

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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,History,Americas,United States,State & Local

Label: W. W. Norton & Company

Artist: Lepore, Jill

Album: These Truths: A History of the United States

Book Title: These Truths : a History of the United States

Number of Pages: 960 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

Item Height: 1.6 in

Publication Year: 2019

Topic: United States / State & Local / General, Civil Rights, American Government / General, Modern / General, United States / General

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, History

Item Weight: 30.8 Oz

Author: Jill Lepore

Item Length: 9.2 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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