these truths a history of the united states

With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.

“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. 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. 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. These Truths (2018) by historian Jill Lepore is a one-volume chronicle of American history that attempts to tell the United States’ story from beginning to end, something that, as the author notes in the introduction, has not been attempted in a long time.

But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? The American experiment rests on three ideas-“these truths,” Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. 'These truths : a history of the United States.' New York : W.W. 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. ISBN: 9780393635256 (electronic bk.) Genre: Electronic books. At a minimum, her book should be required reading for every federal officeholder.-Robert Dallek. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Her history of the United States reminds us of the dilemmas that have plagued the country and the institutional strengths that have allowed us to survive as a republic for over two centuries. “Nothing short of a masterpiece.”-NPR BooksĪ New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year

These truths a history of the united states