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67 produkter
Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Av Jill Lepore
Inbunden, 2026
339 kr
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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2026'Superb' Philip Pullman'Revelatory' George SaundersIt presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age …
These Truths
A History of the United States
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2026
251 kr
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Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from immigrants and from people who have fought to end immigration. "A nation born in contradiction will fight forever over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes. “Clear in purpose and elegant in design" …
We the People
A History of the US Constitution
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
247 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2026ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION 2025THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA THE ECONOMIST, HISTORY TODAY, NEW YORK TIMES, NEW …
Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Av Jill Lepore
Inbunden, 2026
357 kr
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“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of... the Artificial State,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, …
This America
The Case for the Nation
Av Jill Lepore
Inbunden, 2019
174 kr
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At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths.With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker …
These Truths
A History of the United States
Av Jill Lepore
2023
1052 kr
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The United States was founded on a set of “self-evident” truths: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But how well has the nation—from its revolutionary birth to our fractious present—lived up to these founding ideals? In an absorbing, character-driven narrative, …
Whites of Their Eyes
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2011
183 kr
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Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the …
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
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Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2026
170 kr
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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2026'Superb' Philip Pullman'Revelatory' George SaundersIt presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age …
This America: The Case for the Nation
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2020
151 kr
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'Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style' Amanda Foreman'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York TimesFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian, Jill Lepore, comes a bold new history of …
This America: The Case for the Nation
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2019
44 kr
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''Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style'' Amanda Foreman ''A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism'' New York Times From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian, Jill Lepore, comes a bold new history of …
Encounters in the New World
A History in Documents
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2009
701 kr
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From Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789, Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history, brings to life in exciting, first-person detail some of the earliest events in American history in Encounters in …
Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2007
155 kr
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What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. In A is for American , …
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more …
Name of War
King Philip''s War and the Origins of American Identity
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2009
191 kr
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Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip''s War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres …
Book of Ages
The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2013
205 kr
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National Book Award Finalist From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political …
Mansion of Happiness
A History of Life and Death
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2012
142 kr
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Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we …
Name of War
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 1999
297 kr
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A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2003
185 kr
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Secret History of Wonder Woman
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2014
158 kr
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A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from …
Blindspot
A Novel
E-bok, 2008
205 kr
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BONUS: This edition contains a Blindspot discussion guide. Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire''s far shores—in the city of Boston, lately seized with the spirit of liberty. Eager to begin anew, he advertises for an …
These Truths
A History of the United States
Av Jill Lepore
Inbunden, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
396 kr
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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 …
Story of America
Essays on Origins
Av Jill Lepore
Inbunden, 2012
254 kr
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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. …
Story of America
Essays on Origins
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2013
192 kr
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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. …
Story of America
Essays on Origins
Av Jill Lepore
Häftad, 2026
183 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories—from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 …
Story of America
Essays on Origins
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2026
265 kr
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin storiesfrom John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 …
Story of America
Essays on Origins
Av Jill Lepore
E-bok, 2026
265 kr
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin storiesfrom John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 …
