Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a national bestseller, and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
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. 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 fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?
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. To answer that question, Lepore traces the intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism, and technology, from the colonial town meeting to the nineteenth-century party machine, from talk radio to twenty-first-century Internet polls, from Magna Carta to the Patriot Act, from the printing press to Facebook News.
Along the way, Lepore’s sovereign chronicle is filled with arresting sketches of both well-known and lesser-known Americans, from a parade of presidents and a rogues’ gallery of political mischief makers to the intrepid leaders of protest movements, including Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist orator; William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and ultimately tragic populist; Pauli Murray, the visionary civil rights strategist; and Phyllis Schlafly, the uncredited architect of modern conservatism.
Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from immigrants and from people who have fought to end immigration. "A nation born in contradiction will fight forever over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. "The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden," These Truths observes. "It can’t be shirked. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it."
##美国建国以“隔离”开始,乘着蒸汽机,铁路,电报电话,无线电,互联网等科技新风,一路疾风劲草驶往幸福的彼岸。现在忽然发现这艘船不知不觉已经千疮百孔,经不起折腾。在这茫茫的“大海”里,国家之船摇摇晃晃。自由派被微风吹倒,却忽略要修理船帆,让帆布面对风起而拍打撕...
评分 评分##虽然美国历史中的事实是客观的 但从不同角度去思考会有不一样的结论 作者有些白左,但整体比较客观。对于社会文化、政治有很多思考,值得读一下
评分##400 years in 1000 pages. constitution, parties, election, slave, civil rights, technology, ideology.
评分##Bill Gates力推书籍,以事实为基础,不做价值引导,留给读者自己去判断,去认识一个真实的美国的成长之路。
评分##观念和现实的冲突,历史和技术的关系,这两个主题很有意思
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