These Truths: A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore
W.W. Norton & Company, $62.95 hb, 953 pp, 9780393635249
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These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Reviewed by Ben Vine •
During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama declared that the story of American history is of countless people striving toward ‘a more perfect union’, that most utopian of goals enshrined in the nation’s Constitution. In These Truths, a one-volume account of the entirety of American history since European settlement, Jill Lepore praises Obama’s unifying rhetoric, but believes the tide of American history is against him.
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These Truths: A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore
W.W. Norton & Company, $62.95 hb, 953 pp, 9780393635249
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