These Truths

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Jill Lepore
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W. W. Norton & Company 2018-9-18 Hardcover 9780393635249

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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a national bestseller, and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—"these truths," Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?

These Truths 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. To answer that question, Lepore traces the intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism, and technology, from the colonial town meeting to the nineteenth-century party machine, from talk radio to twenty-first-century Internet polls, from Magna Carta to the Patriot Act, from the printing press to Facebook News.

Along the way, Lepore’s sovereign chronicle is filled with arresting sketches of both well-known and lesser-known Americans, from a parade of presidents and a rogues’ gallery of political mischief makers to the intrepid leaders of protest movements, including Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist orator; William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and ultimately tragic populist; Pauli Murray, the visionary civil rights strategist; and Phyllis Schlafly, the uncredited architect of modern conservatism.

Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from immigrants and from people who have fought to end immigration. "A nation born in contradiction 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 past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden," These Truths observes. "It can’t be shirked. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it."

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##筆觸與一般歷史書確實不一樣,Jill Lepore非常成功地將歷史上看似相斥的運動融會到大史觀論述當中,節奏拿貼得當。 書中在論述美國如何建國的同時,也談到黑奴反抗、組織反抗團體與諸多不同團體拉扯一起嚮前的過程。一個民主的國傢,自建國之初,就註定會經歷動亂與爭執,而正...  

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##由於選舉人數的計算(奴隸算3/5),造成傑弗遜擊敗亞當斯當選總統。在美國開國的36年裏,有32年的總統是來之擁有奴隸的維吉尼亞州。唯一的例外是約翰 亞當斯。 1800年的選舉被稱為革命-“透過理性而和平的改革手段,即人民的選舉權”來完成的。16個州有7個修改瞭選舉齣選舉人團...  

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##如果傑弗遜是騎在奴隸的肩膀上前往白宮,傑剋遜就是騎在人民的雙臂上前往白宮。人民,就是那些被賦予瞭選舉權的農民和工廠工人。 傑剋遜在職期間,廢除瞭國傢銀行,這場銀行戰爭“無非是一場人群對抗財産的戰爭”。人民的傑剋遜,人群之王,大勝。 這次廢掉國傢銀行造成銀行業...  

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##Beautifully written in an equanimous way. In times of turmoil, reading history lends a form of self-salvation. You can trace the roots of social forces, marveled at historical moments, introspect about the vicissitudes of our life, and find comfort in knowing that we are not all alone in our generational struggles.

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##聽瞭一半到期瞭 (gonna be on hold for 10 weeks but I can do the review now) 非常好 可以和 a people’s history of United States 並列 one of the least white male centric history book which is a low & high bar. 語言簡單又prosaic, beauty in simplicity & clarity. 推薦給所有人

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