These truths : a history of the United States / Jill Lepore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lepore, Jill, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 999 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2026.

Summary:

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface to the jubilee edition

Introduction : the question stated

Part One. The idea (1492-1799). The nature of the past

The rulers and the ruled

Of wars and revolutions

The constitution of a nation

Part Two. The people (1800-1865). A democracy of numbers

The soul and the machine

Of ships and shipwrecks

The face of battle

Part Three. The state (1866-1945). Of citizens, persons, and people

Efficiency and the masses

A constitution of the air

The brutality of modernity

Part Four. The machine (1946-2016). A world of knowledge

Rights and wrongs

Battle lines

America, disrupted

Part Five. The nation (2017-). A state of emergency

Epilogue: The question addressed.

Notes:

Originally published: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781324130765

1324130768

OCLC:

1535851361

Publisher Number:

CIPO000360084