Jill Lepore. (2018). These Truths: A History of the United States. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Jill Lepore. 2018. These Truths: A History of the United States. Recorded Books, Inc.

Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States. Recorded Books, Inc, 2018.

Jill Lepore. These Truths: A History of the United States. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2018.

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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. 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 dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths, or belied them. "A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. A spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, These Truths offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.

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   • content: Jill Lepore takes on her new one-volume history of the United States as narrator. Beginning in 1492, Lepore shares with listeners our county's many high and low points. Though her comprehensive tome includes many of the most exciting stories in our country's past, her narration falls somewhat short. She sounds too academic and misses opportunities to enliven both the interesting anecdotes and the drier explanations of facts. She gets much right about U.S. history in her writing--for example her spot-on analysis of "these truths," as stated by Thomas Jefferson. For that reason, it's a letdown that her performance makes listening to this 26-hour story more difficult than it should be. A.G.M. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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     July 16, 2018
     The principles of the Declaration of Independence get betrayed, fought over, and sometimes fulfilled in this probing political history of the Unites States. Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Lepore (Book of Ages) explores how ideals of liberty, equality, and happiness have fueled conflicts from the colonial era, when American slave owners protested taxation without representation as a form of slavery, to the struggles of African-Americans, women, immigrants, and workers for freedom, votes, and civil rights. Her viewpoint is progressive—she spotlights neglected heroes like George Washington’s runaway slaves and People’s Party orator Mary Lease—but she puts forth evenhanded assessments of latter-day partisan wrangles, castigating both the alt-right and the “sanctimonious accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia” of the campus left. Lepore sometimes strains for poetic, even psychedelic, imagery—her impression of the Civil War, with “giant armies wielding unstoppable machines, as if monsters with scales of steel had been let loose on the land to maul and maraud, and to eat even the innocent,” feels like a Transformers movie—and she leaves out much historical detail to concentrate on politics, constitutional struggles, and evolving ideologies. The payoff: she unifies a complex and conflicted history into a coherent, focused, engrossing narrative with insights that resonate for modern readers. Photos.

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