作者：JillLepore
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
副标题：AHistoryoftheUnitedStates
出版年：2018-9-18
页数：960
定价：USD39.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780393635249
内容简介
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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."
作者简介
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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.
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Beautifully written in an equanimous way. In times of turmoil, reading history lends a form of self-salvation. You can trace the roots of social forces, marveled at historical moments, introspect abou…
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。
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
一流的非虚构作品，非主流的历史研究杰作，Lepore果然是American Studies培养的学者，风格大开大合，细节描写又令人拍案称奇，现代美国政治就是一出连续不断的肥皂剧，惊悚，荒诞，英雄，悲情，史诗，皆有，暴君，义士，真小人，伪君子，masscult与无力的男性气概共存。美国是一座躁动不安的剧场，流动的盛宴，野心勃勃的试验场。
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