![]() ![]() , Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. ![]() 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. Bowing to pressure from parents, the Willard school board recently voted 6-0 to remove the book 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' from the high school library. 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() ), 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. Norton Publication Date 2019-10 Section New Titles - Paperback / US History Type New Format ISBN 9780393357424 The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" ( These Truths by Jill Lepore Details Author Jill Lepore Publisher W. ![]()
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