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Name: These Truths
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Author: Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore offers a monumental, one‑volume account of American history that examines whether the nation has lived up to the truths of political equality, natural rights and sovereignty that Jefferson once declared essential. Tracing key moments from the colonial town meeting to the twenty‑first‑century Internet, Lepore links the development of politics, law, journalism, and technology, while profiling figures such as Frederick Douglass, William Jennings Bryan, Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly. Her narrative frames the United States as a nation born of contradiction, urging readers to confront the past as an inheritance and a duty of citizenship.

First publish date: 2018

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Jill Lepore

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