The deadline : essays / Jill Lepore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lepore, Jill, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--21st century.

United States.

Twenty-first century.

Genre:

Essays.

Essays

History

Physical Description:

xxii, 617 pages : black and white photographs ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Summary:

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans' techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented--but armed--aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore's life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the "river of time that divides the quick from the dead." Echoing Gore Vidal's United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay--and of history--itself.-- Adapted from cover.

Contents:

Part one. Prodigal daughter. Prodigal daughter ; The deadline ; Easy rider ; The Everyman library

Part two. Misjudged. It's still alive ; Ahab at home ; The fireman ; The shorebird ; Misjudged

Part three. Valley of the dolls. The oddyssey ; The ice man ; Valley of the dolls ; The man in the box ; No, we cannot ; Buzz

Part four. Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts, ma'am ; Bad news ; After the fact ; Hard news

Part five. Battleground America. Battleground America ; Blood on the green ; The long blue line ; The riot report

Part 6. The disruption machine. The cobweb ; The disruption machine ; The robot caravan ; Mission impossible

Part seven. The rule of history. The rule of history ; The age of consent ; Benched ; The dark ages ; Drafted

Part eight. The parent trap. Back to the blackboard ; To have and to hold ; The return of the pervert ; The parent trap

Part nine. The isolation ward. Plague years ; These four walls ; The isolation ward ; Burned

Part ten. In every dark hour. Politics and the new machine ; The war and the roses ; You're fired ; The Trump papers ; In every dark hour ; The American beast.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Anonymous gift.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

1631496123

9781631496127

OCLC:

1362866174

Publisher Number:

99994425324