It encompasses interesting takes on democracy and technology, shifts in demographics, revolutions in economics and the very nature of modernity. It covers the history of political thought, the fabric of American social life over the centuries, classic “great man” accounts of contingencies, surprises, decisions, ironies and character, and the vivid experiences of those previously marginalized: women, African-Americans, Native Americans, homosexuals. It tries to take in almost everything, an impossible task, but I’d be hard-pressed to think she could have crammed more into these 932 highly readable pages. “These Truths,” by Jill Lepore - a professor at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker - is a one-volume history of the United States, constructed around a traditional narrative, that takes you from the 16th to the 21st century. It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment. THESE TRUTHS A History of the United States By Jill Lepore Illustrated.
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