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07098aam a2201225 i 4500 001 3C8B2CC2BB0811E882B6F0FC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20240326010711 008 180812t20182018nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018019180 020 $a 0393635244 020 $a 9780393635249 035 $a (OCoLC)1021807194 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d FM0 $d YDX $d FEM $d MLY $d OCLCO $d HBP $d BUR $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E178 $b .L57 2018 082 00 $a 973 $2 23 100 1 $a Lepore, Jill, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a These truths : $b a history of the United States / $c Jill Lepore. 246 30 $a History of the United States 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2018] 300 $a xx, 932 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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.'"--Dust jacket. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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: 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 ; The brutality of modernity -- Part four: The machine (1946-2016). 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