by Jill Lepore
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.”―NPR Books
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
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.
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America 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 them―political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?
Interview with the Author
The Book Review
The End of the ‘Struggle’
9/28/18 61 min
Interview Starts at 22 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews
Jill Lepore
9/18/18 53 min
The B&N Podcast
Jill Lepore
11/2/18 42 min
Lapham’s Quarterly
Episode 35: Jill Lepore
10/12/18 38 min
Vox Conversations
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
1/3/19 93 min
History Extra
A History of the United States
11/14/19 37 min
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