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Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore is a historian and staff writer at The New Yorker. Her book These Truths: A History of the United States offers a sweeping look at American history. She's a sharp observer of our nation's past and present.
These Truths
Synopsis
Jill Lepore's ambitious history examines the founding ideas of the United States and traces their evolution through centuries of American experience. The book investigates whether the nation has lived up to its ideals of equality, natural rights, and popular sovereignty. Lepore explores this through the intertwined histories of politics, law, journalism, and technology, from the nation's beginnings to the present day.