These Truths

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Jill Lepore
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W. W. Norton & Company 2018-9-18 Hardcover 9780393635249

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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."

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##386-These Truths-Jill Lepore-History-2018 Barack 2021/12/06 《These Truths》,首版于2018年。它对分裂国家的起源和崛起进行了权威性的描述,美国人民迫切需要对美国历史的美丽和悲剧进行反思。它讲述了这个从 1492 年开始的独特的美国故事,询问五个多世纪以来的事件过程...  

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##乾隆四十一年,也是公元1776年。 那时的大清是一片繁荣昌盛的景象。在这一年,乾隆除了追谥明末殉难诸臣,删销书籍,还重用了和绅。 同年的7月4日,北美洲费城的民众召开了一次大陆会议,发表了《独立宣言》,并宣告美利坚合众国正式成立。 “ We hold these truths to be self...  

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##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

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##400 years in 1000 pages. constitution, parties, election, slave, civil rights, technology, ideology.

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##好文采 1000多页的美国政治通史在2016年川普当选落下帷幕。4年后的今天,可以检验一下作者作为历史学家的“预言”能力。美国忽略美洲原住民的历史书写,一群白人男人在没有上帝的前提下,写下了一个独立国家对其人民(开始只是有财产的白人)许下的美好愿望-“生而平等”。有不可剥夺...  

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