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These truths jill5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() This spellbinding chronicle offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation. The provocative writings of David Walker, a free Black man, particularly shaped the debate about slavery. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. ![]() ![]() Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them. ![]() And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre 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. 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. These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nations. These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore € 20.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days. ![]()
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