![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “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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