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Ben Vine

These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

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January-February 2019, no. 408
Ben Vine reviews 'These Truths: A history of the United States' by Jill Lepore

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 ...

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