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![]() ![]() ![]() These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. ![]() But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. The American experiment rests on three ideas - "these truths," Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself - a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence - at the center of the nation’s history. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. ![]()
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