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These truths : a history of the United States, Jill Lepore

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"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, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation 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. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? [This book] 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 traces the intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism, and technology, from the colonial town meeting to the nineteenth-century party machine, from talk radio to twenty-first-century Internet polls, from Magna Carta to the Patriot Act, from the printing press to Facebook News. Along the way, Lepore's sovereign chronicle is filled with arresting sketches of both well-known and lesser-known Americans, from a parade of presidents and a rogues' gallery of political mischief makers to the intrepid leaders of protest movements, including Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist orator; William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and ultimately tragic populist; Pauli Murray, the visionary civil rights strategist; and Phyllis Schlafly, the uncredited architect of modern conservatism. 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, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. 'The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden, ' [this book] observes. 'It can't be shirked. 'There's nothing for it but to get to know it.'"--Jacket
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xx, 932 pages
Contents
  • The people (1800-1865).
  • A democracy of numbers
  • The soul and the machine
  • Of ships and shipwrecks
  • The face of battle
  • Part three:
  • The state (1866-1945).
  • Of citizens, persons, and people
  • Efficiency and the masses
  • A constitution of the air
  • Introduction: The question stated
  • The brutality of modernity
  • Part four:
  • The machine (1946-2016).
  • A world of knowledge
  • Rights and wrongs
  • Battle lines
  • r America, disrupted
  • Epilogue: The question addressed
  • Part one:
  • The idea (1492-1799).
  • The nature of the past
  • The rulers and the ruled
  • Of wars and revolutions
  • The constitution of a nation
  • Part two:
Isbn
9780393635249
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These truths : a history of the United States
Title
These truths
Title remainder
a history of the United States
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Jill Lepore
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"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, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation 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. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? [This book] 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 traces the intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism, and technology, from the colonial town meeting to the nineteenth-century party machine, from talk radio to twenty-first-century Internet polls, from Magna Carta to the Patriot Act, from the printing press to Facebook News. Along the way, Lepore's sovereign chronicle is filled with arresting sketches of both well-known and lesser-known Americans, from a parade of presidents and a rogues' gallery of political mischief makers to the intrepid leaders of protest movements, including Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist orator; William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and ultimately tragic populist; Pauli Murray, the visionary civil rights strategist; and Phyllis Schlafly, the uncredited architect of modern conservatism. 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, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. 'The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden, ' [this book] observes. 'It can't be shirked. 'There's nothing for it but to get to know it.'"--Jacket
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Writing style
Award
  • Massachusetts Book Awards, Nonfiction Award, 2019.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2018
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10692265
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1966-
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Lepore, Jill
Dewey number
973
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
E178
LC item number
.L57 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Civil rights
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  • HISTORY
  • Civil rights
  • Politics and government
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  • United States
  • Civil rights
  • United States
  • United States
  • Droits civils et politiques
  • Vâeritâe comme consensus
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  • United States
  • Civil rights
  • United States
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a history of the United States
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These truths : a history of the United States, Jill Lepore
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 793-880) and index
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volume
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  • cartographic image
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Contents
  • The people (1800-1865).
  • A democracy of numbers
  • The soul and the machine
  • Of ships and shipwrecks
  • The face of battle
  • Part three:
  • The state (1866-1945).
  • Of citizens, persons, and people
  • Efficiency and the masses
  • A constitution of the air
  • Introduction: The question stated
  • The brutality of modernity
  • Part four:
  • The machine (1946-2016).
  • A world of knowledge
  • Rights and wrongs
  • Battle lines
  • r America, disrupted
  • Epilogue: The question addressed
  • Part one:
  • The idea (1492-1799).
  • The nature of the past
  • The rulers and the ruled
  • Of wars and revolutions
  • The constitution of a nation
  • Part two:
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xx, 932 pages
Isbn
9780393635249
Lccn
2018019180
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
  • 40028479308
  • 99979240883
  • 99977906079
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1021807194
Label
These truths : a history of the United States, Jill Lepore
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 793-880) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • The people (1800-1865).
  • A democracy of numbers
  • The soul and the machine
  • Of ships and shipwrecks
  • The face of battle
  • Part three:
  • The state (1866-1945).
  • Of citizens, persons, and people
  • Efficiency and the masses
  • A constitution of the air
  • Introduction: The question stated
  • The brutality of modernity
  • Part four:
  • The machine (1946-2016).
  • A world of knowledge
  • Rights and wrongs
  • Battle lines
  • r America, disrupted
  • Epilogue: The question addressed
  • Part one:
  • The idea (1492-1799).
  • The nature of the past
  • The rulers and the ruled
  • Of wars and revolutions
  • The constitution of a nation
  • Part two:
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xx, 932 pages
Isbn
9780393635249
Lccn
2018019180
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
  • 40028479308
  • 99979240883
  • 99977906079
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1021807194

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