These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore

960 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 th...

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informative 100%
reflective 62%
challenging 55%
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