9780393357424-0393357422-These Truths: A History of the United States

These Truths: A History of the United States

ISBN-13: 9780393357424
ISBN-10: 0393357422
Edition: Revised
Author: Jill Lepore
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 960 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393357424
ISBN-10: 0393357422
Edition: Revised
Author: Jill Lepore
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 960 pages

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These Truths: A History of the United States (ISBN-13: 9780393357424 and ISBN-10: 0393357422), written by authors Jill Lepore, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, World History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.48.

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“Nothing short of a masterpiece.”―NPR Books
A New York Times and 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.

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