![]() ![]() ![]() “This thought-provoking and fascinating book stands to become the definitive one-volume U.S. “A splendid rendering-filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope-that will please Lepore’s readers immensely and win her many new ones.” By engaging with our country's painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.” “Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and These Truths is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. ![]() “ one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.” The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “This sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion.” ![]() Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review “rilliant…insightful…It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment.” ![]()
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