en-US Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:13:26 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 43726521 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.]]> 960 Jill Lepore 0393357422 Clay 4 history 4.38 2018
author: Jill Lepore
name: Clay
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/11
date added: 2024/08/12
shelves: history
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author: Helen Keller
name: Clay
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1902
rating: 0
read at: 2017/04/10
date added: 2020/11/13
shelves: autobiography, history, alabama
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