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These Truths: A History of the United States
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
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“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a 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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a 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.
The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as] The Journal of sacred literature and biblical record. [Continued as] The Journal of sacred literature
Author: John Kitto
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Pages : 504
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record
Author: John Kitto
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Additions (Catalogue of additions) made to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Pages : 284
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Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress, from December 1, 1861 to December 1, 1862
Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Usury and Usury Laws
Author: Franklin Winton Ryan
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Category : Interest
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Interest
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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