These Truths: A History of the United States, (Paperback)

from banjo123

Lepore is valiant in her attempt to tell the history of the US, with emphasis on the legacy of slavery in our country's founding, and a realization of how business interests influence politics. It is a very good book. I especially enjoyed the first part, as it's focus on slavery really made me th...

from banjo123

Lepore is valiant in her attempt to tell the history of the US, with emphasis on the legacy of slavery in our country's founding, and a realization of how business interests influence politics. It is a very good book. I especially enjoyed the first part, as it's focus on slavery really made me th...

from writemoves

Unlike most history books, the content was very readable and interesting. However Lepore's book is very long ( over 950 pages). The timeline of the book starts with Christopher Columbus and finishes at the Trump presidency. Again unlike most history books, this is not a whitewash of the warts, fa...

from rivkat

Lepore's political history focuses on who was allowed to be part of the process of politics over the years, and on the epistemology of political knowledge as mediated by various sources. Benjamin Franklin's sister, who was never allowed to do the things her brother became famous for, shows up ear...

from dasam

In "These Truths," historian Jill Lapore does an admirable job of writing a thoughtful and balanced history of the United States from the perspective of its founding ideas and ideals. She demonstrates the flaws and failures, the betrayals and reversals. She also shows the heroic efforts to be tru...