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."
##一流的非虛構作品,非主流的曆史研究傑作,Lepore果然是American Studies培養的學者,風格大開大閤,細節描寫又令人拍案稱奇,現代美國政治就是一齣連續不斷的肥皂劇,驚悚,荒誕,英雄,悲情,史詩,皆有,暴君,義士,真小人,僞君子,masscult與無力的男性氣概共存。美國是一座躁動不安的劇場,流動的盛宴,野心勃勃的試驗場。
評分 評分 評分##我真的請所以想瞭解美史的小白去讀這書,太好入門瞭!!作者文筆太好瞭,沒辦法把它單純定義為一本“曆史書”。比起非常刻闆的記錄,這是一種非常嚴謹的文學。
評分##筆觸與一般歷史書確實不一樣,Jill Lepore非常成功地將歷史上看似相斥的運動融會到大史觀論述當中,節奏拿貼得當。 書中在論述美國如何建國的同時,也談到黑奴反抗、組織反抗團體與諸多不同團體拉扯一起嚮前的過程。一個民主的國傢,自建國之初,就註定會經歷動亂與爭執,而正...
評分##筆觸與一般歷史書確實不一樣,Jill Lepore非常成功地將歷史上看似相斥的運動融會到大史觀論述當中,節奏拿貼得當。 書中在論述美國如何建國的同時,也談到黑奴反抗、組織反抗團體與諸多不同團體拉扯一起嚮前的過程。一個民主的國傢,自建國之初,就註定會經歷動亂與爭執,而正...
評分##2022.4.11杭州。連滾帶爬終於讀完瞭。作者的客觀公正真是難得。找來一個講座聽,發現本人也是真實可愛。提供瞭新的思路和視角,有很多收穫。
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