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ISBN 10: 0393635256
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Author: Jill Lepore
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year 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. 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. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? 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. 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. “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. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
These Truths A History of the United States 1st Table of contents:
Introduction: The Question Stated
Part One: The Idea (1492–1799)
One: The Nature of the Past
Two: The Rulers and the Ruled
Three: Of Wars and Revolutions
Four: The Constitution of a Nation
Part Two: The People (1800–1865)
Five: A Democracy of Numbers
Six: The Soul and the Machine
Seven: Of Ships and Shipwrecks
Eight: The Face of Battle
Part Three: The State (1866–1945)
Nine: Of Citizens, Persons, and People
Ten: Efficiency and the Masses
Eleven: A Constitution of the Air
Twelve: The Brutality of Modernity
Part Four: The Machine (1946–2016)
Thirteen: A World of Knowledge
Fourteen: Rights and Wrongs
Fifteen: Battle Lines
Sixteen: America, Disrupted
Epilogue: The Question Addressed
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
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