These Truths: A History of the United States
W.W. Norton & Company, $62.95 hb, 953 pp, 9780393635249
History
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
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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