![]() ![]() , Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. 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 federal government began imprisoning American citizens of Japanese ancestry in internment camps. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. In 1942, much of America’s fighting was taking place in the Pacific, against the Japanese. ![]() ![]() 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. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself-a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence-at the center of the nation's history. They failed to establish a self-supporting community because they refused to farm, instead stealing resources from their Indigenous neighbors and starving nevertheless. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" ( ![]()
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