Who recommended These Truths?

8 people have recommended These Truths in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Morgan Housel, Daniel W. Drezner and Jim Himes. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is These Truths worth reading?

8 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a high-school U.S. history teacher building a year-long syllabus who needs one continuous narrative to show how Revolutionary-era ideas reappear in later institutional conflicts — useful as a backbone for lectures and themed unit pairings.; a city or state communications staffer preparing briefings on public trust who needs historical precedents about institutions, facts, and credibility to situate current messaging and policy choices.; a history graduate student narrowing dissertation topics who wants a broad chronological map to spot understudied eras or episodes worth deeper archival work.. It may not suit: annoying if you prefer a tight, breezy narrative — you'll likely put it down when chapters pile dense political and institutional detail together with brisk transitions and few clear signposts.; lose interest if you want a narrowly focused biography or a short, argument-driven polemic; the book's breadth favors sweeping coverage over deep single-subject immersion.; not for readers seeking hands-on exercises or practical how-to takeaways — no exercises and almost no step-by-step application..

What books are like These Truths?

Readers of These Truths also turn to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The World as It Is and Out of Control, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

These Truths by Jill Lepore: Recommended by 8 People

Name: These Truths
Author: Jill Lepore

Widely hailed for its ?sweeping, sobering account of the American past? (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore?s onevolume 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, n...