A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore
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See customer reviews on Amazon →These Truths presents American history as a single chronological sweep that centers devotion to facts and political equality. Its most useful feature is the through-line that connects founding disputes to recurring fights over institutions and credibility, giving readers a broad map of continuities. The scale forces brisk summaries, so chapters sometimes compress complex episodes into dense, uneven passages. Expect interpretive confidence, occasional repetition, and stretches of institutional detail that test patience more than they illuminate local stories.
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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...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in American History, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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