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Jill Lepore - These Truths, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

These Truths

A History of the United States

Av Jill Lepore

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The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths”, Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, “on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching”, writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation’s history.Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks whether the course of events has proven the nation’s founding truths or belied them. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. This spellbinding chronicle offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-10-01
  • Mått: 155 x 234 x 46 mm
  • Vikt: 908 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 960
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN: 9780393357424
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Cundill History Prize 2019
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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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"The history of the American South is one of change, power struggle, political bending from Left to Right, negotiating race, and all of this cannot be contained in one volume or by one narrative that at times feels too neat — even if Lepore is a truly gifted writer with profound insight into those she writes about. Do read her magnificent book, but just remember that it's not the whole story."

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