Jill Lepore
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Language
English
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"The American experiment rests on three ideas--'these truths,' Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, 'on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching,' writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin���s youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother���s fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Comapny
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time”
Joe Gould’s Teeth is a Poe-like tale of detection, madness, and invention. Digging through archives all over the country, Lepore unearthed evidence that “The Oral History of Our Time” did in fact once exist. Relying...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Edition
Abridged
Language
English
Description
"Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged, and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall... Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 617 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline...