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. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?
And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. 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.
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.
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