![]() Although Lepore pays ample attention to earlier divisive periods in U.S. “The United States is founded on a set of ideas, but Americans have become so divided that they no longer agree, if they ever did, about what those ideas are, or were,” Lepore writes (p. In These Truths, she tells that story-from Christopher Columbus to Donald Trump.Īt many points, the answer to the “important question” seems to be that the United States is a failed experiment. ![]() Lepore explains: “The origins of that idea, and its fate, are the story of American history” (p. to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force” (p. As Alexander Hamilton reflected: “It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country. The founders hoped to establish a nation-state “that would be ruled not by accident and force but by reason and choice” (p. Her task is to address-if not to fully answer- the question: “Does American history prove these truths, or does it belie them?” (p. “The American experiment rests on three political ideas,” Jill Lepore summarizes: equality, rights, and democracy (p. ![]() These Truths: A History of the United States takes its title-and its themes- from the Declaration of Independence. ![]()
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She’s managed to make herself part of a small community on a ship, a collection of survivors who remain after an apocalyptic event forced the small remainder of humanity to the sea. Iraxi is pregnant, and the baby might not be human. ![]() Overall, Flowers for the Sea stumbles to the finish line, but it will likely captivate many readers, and for that, I praise it. The book brims with gripping prose, telling a heart-wrenching and terrifying tale. Flowers for the Sea is a marine biologist’s nightmare and a climate change activist’s worst-case future. ![]() Rocklyn’s horror novella gives readers a striking debut. ![]() ![]() Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter publication, and her first adult novel, so does it really matter what it’s about? As of today, one week after its release, The Casual Vacancy is #3 in Amazon’s sales rankings. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?īut, of course, this is J. 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