Think again. Jane Kamensky, professor of American history and chair of the History Department at Brandeis, is the author of The Exchange… More about Jane Kamensky. About Jill Lepore. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. One of our greatest historians succeeds, where so many have failed, to make sense of the whole canvas of our history. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing.”, “Everything Lepore writes is distinguished by intelligence, eloquence, and fresh insight. We quoted, we borrowed, we took liberties. . "No one has written with more passion and brilliance about how a flawed and combustible America kept itself tethered to the transcendent ideals on which it was founded. Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. In If Then, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, unearths from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation’s history. With acrobatic research prowess, muscular narrative chops and disarming flashes of humor, Lepore rises to the challenge, bringing to light previously unknown details and deliberately obfuscated connections.” —San Francisco Chronicle  “This captivating, sometimes racy, charming illustrated history is one part biography of the character and one part biography of her fascinating creator, psychologist and inventor William Moulton Marston—an early feminist who believed, way before his time, that the world would be a better place if only women were running it….In the process of bringing her ‘superhero’ to life in this very carefully researched, witty secret ‘herstory,’ Lepore herself emerges as a kind of superheroine: a woman on a mission—as energetic, powerful, brilliant and provocative as her subject.” —Good Housekeeping “This book is important, readable scholarship, making the connection between popular culture and the deeper history of the American woman’s fight for equality….Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful and righteous place.” —The Kansas City Star“Fascinating…often brilliant….Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects’ lives to some of the most important social movements of the era. Lepore, Jill (September 9, 2020). The Enlightenment. Instead, it eats liberalism.” But liberalism is still in there, Lepore affirms, and This America is an attempt to pull it out. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America. A finalist for the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. What happens when we die? “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. In ways that even Gould himself could not have imagined, what Gould wrote down really is a history of our time: unsettling, and ferocious. “ ‘An old-fashioned civics book,’ Harvard historian and New Yorker contributor Jill Lepore calls it, a glint in her eye. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. Garner, Dwight (October 23, 2014). Her many books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a national bestseller, and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? Armed with the facts of what happened before, we are better able to approach our collective task of figuring out what should happen now . She lays out for our modern sensibility how some event or social problem was fought over by interest groups, reformers, opportunists and ‘thought leaders’ of the day. Perhaps instead of the next U2 album, Apple could make a copy of These Truths appear on every iPhone—not only because it offers the basic civics education that every American needs, but because it is a welcome corrective to the corrosive histories peddled by partisans.”, “In her epic new work, Jill Lepore helps us learn from whence we came.”. But These Truths is also an astute exploration of the ways in which the country is living up to its potential, and where it is not.”, “Gutsy, lyrical, and expressive… [These Truths] is a perceptive and necessary contribution to understanding the American condition of late.… It captures the fullness of the past, where hope rises out of despair, renewal out of destruction, and forward momentum out of setbacks.”, “Lepore’s brilliant book, These Truths, rings as clear as a church bell, the lucid, welcome yield of clear thinking and a capable, curious mind.”, “An ambitious and provocative attempt to interpret American history as an effort to fulfull and maintain certain fundamental principles . JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Without ignoring the horrors of conquest, slavery or recurring prejudices, she manages nonetheless to capture the epic quality of the American past. “It's an audacious undertaking to write a readable history of America, and Jill Lepore is more than up to the task. Jill Lepore (Auteur) Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. In this page-turning, eye-opening history, Jill Lepore reveals the Cold War roots of the tech-saturated present, in a thrilling tale that moves from the campaigns of Eisenhower and Kennedy to ivied think tanks, Madison Avenue ad firms, and the hamlets of Vietnam. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Jill Lepore is a staff writer for the New Yorker.Her books include The Name of War, which won the Bancroft Prize; New York Burning, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history; Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and the international bestseller, These Truths: A History of the United States. From past to present, Lepore argues, Americans have wrestled with the idea of democracy by telling stories. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is its own magic lasso, one that compels history to finally tell the truth about Wonder Woman—and compels the rest of us to behold it.” —Los Angeles Times, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman is as racy, as improbable, as awesomely righteous, and as filled with curious devices as an episode of the comic book itself. . It plays with the conventions of eighteenth-century novels, newspapers, portraits, and histories. "Scientists Use Big Data to Sway Elections and Predict Riots: Welcome to the 1960s". But when Gould died in 1957, in a mental hospital, the manuscript was nowhere to be found. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, and host of the podcast The Last Archive. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This fat, ludicrously ambitious one-volume history is a lot more than that. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her many books include the international bestseller These Truths and This America. At a minimum, her book should be required reading for every federal officeholder.”, —Robert Dallek, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "No one has written with more passion and brilliance about how a flawed and combustible America kept itself tethered to the transcendent ideals on which it was founded. King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. From Noah Webster’s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell’s use of “Visible Speech” to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah’s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people’s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation’s struggles. In the most ambitious, one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. She is also the host of The Last Archive a popular podcast and also a contributor at “The New Yorker.” She has written several books including the international bestseller “These Truths: A History of the United States” that she published in 2018. Interweaving many lively biographies, —Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History, Tulane, author of, Copyright © 2021 The President and Fellows of Harvard College, IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, These Truths: A History of the United States, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History, Blindspot: A Novel by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States, Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. [Lepore]seamlessly shifts from the micro to the macro….A panel depicting this labor unrest is just one of scores that appear throughout Lepore's book, further amplifying the author's vivid prose.”—Newsday “A Harvard professor with impeccable scholarly credentials, Lepore treats her subject seriously, as if she is writing the biography of a feminist pioneer like Margaret Sanger, the founder of the birth control movement — which this book is, to an extent….Through extensive research and a careful reading of the Wonder Woman comic books, she argues convincingly that the story of this character is an indelible chapter in the history of women’s rights.” —Miami Herald, A Finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. She… More about Jill Lepore Illiberal nationalism, however, emerged in the United States after the Civil War—resulting in the failure of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the restriction of immigration. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. About Jill Lepore. What does it mean? Gould began his life’s work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly anything anyone ever said to him. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves. Each chapter is carefully shaped. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, and Ezra Pound. a close relation of feminist birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, then prepare to be dazzled by the truths revealed in historian Jill Lepore’s “The Secret History of Wonder Woman.” The story behind Wonder Woman is sensational, spellbinding and utterly improbable. A captivating, deeply incisive work.”, —Frederik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, “Think today’s tech giants invented data mining and market manipulation? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Lepore offers at once a history of origin stories and a meditation on storytelling itself. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Subscribe here. and the dictionary. This is a manifesto for our necessarily shared future.”, —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why it Matters, “In this inspiring and enlightening book, Jill Lepore accomplishes the grand task of telling us what we need to know about our past in order to be good citizens today. Each of these debates has a history. She … >, This America, The Case for the Nation, Jill Lepore, 9781631496417 Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers’ questions about who we are as a nation.”, “In this time of disillusionment with American politics, Jill Lepore’s beautifully written book should be essential reading for everyone who cares about the country’s future. A Jesuit priest's chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors, Aztec records of forbidding omens, excerpts from Columbus's ship's log, John Smith's account of cannibalism among the British residents of Jamestown, slave auction advertisements, memoirs by several members of Cortes's expedition, the reminiscences of an escaped slave-these are just a few examples of the wealth of primary sources collected here. In her own small way, she’s helping women get the justice they deserve, not unlike her tiara’d counterpart….It has nearly everything you might want in a page-turner: tales of S&M, skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly “An origin story far deeper, weirder, and kinkier than anything a cartoonist ever invented.” —Vulture “Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful place as an essential women’s rights icon in this dynamically researched and interpreted, spectacularly illustrated, downright astounding work of discovery that injects new zest into the history of feminism.” —Booklist (*starred review*), “The fullest and most fascinating portrait ever created about the complicated, unconventional family that inspired one of the most enduring feminist icons in pop culture…. What ties Americans to one another? Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people. All the books are amply illustrated and each spans the years froincludes a documentary picture essay, chronology, further reading, source notes, and index. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. In addition to her books and articles on history, in 2008 Lepore published a historical novel, Blindspot, co-written with Jane Kamensky, then a history professor at Brandeis Universityand now Professor of History and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Joe Gould’s Teeth is a Poe-like tale of detection, madness, and invention. Refresh and try again. By the 1980s they’d stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism instead. If Then is that, and even more: It’s absolutely fascinating, excavating a piece of little-known American corporate history that reveals a huge amount about the way we live today and the companies that define the modern era.”, “Data science, Jill Lepore reminds us in this brilliant book, has a past, and she tells it through the engrossing story of Simulmatics, the tiny, long-forgotten company that helped invent our data-obsessed world, in which prediction is seemingly the only knowledge that matters. “A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, will fight forever over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. “Think today’s tech giants invented data mining and market manipulation? Sentences are poised, adverbs rare. Much of American history, Lepore argues, has been a battle between these two forms of nationalism, liberal and illiberal, all the way down to the nation’s latest, bitter struggles over immigration.Defending liberalism, as This America demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation. See all books authored by Jill Lepore, including These Truths: A History of the United States, and Secret History of Wonder Woman, and more on ThriftBooks.com. We have long been fascinated with the potential of using computing technology to predict human behavior. ", "This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free", "A history for the 21st century, far more inclusive than the standard histories of the past", "Monumental ... a crucial work for presenting a fresh and clear-sighted narrative of the entire story ... exciting and page-turningly fascinating, in one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy", "Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style", From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”. “In a world made up of nations, there is no more powerful way to fight the forces of prejudice, intolerance, and injustice than by a dedication to equality, citizenship, and equal rights, as guaranteed by a nation of laws.”A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a “new Americanism,” This America reclaims the nation’s future by reclaiming its past. Digging through archives all over the country, Lepore unearthed evidence that “The Oral History of Our Time” did in fact once exist. Interweaving many lively biographies, These Truths illuminates the origins of the passions and causes, which still inspire and divide Americans in an age that needs all the truth we can find.”, —Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions, “Lepore brings a scholar's comprehensive rigor and a poet's lyrical precision to this singular single-volume history of the United States. The Prodigal Daughter: Writing, history, mourning, The Shorebird: Rachel Carson and the rising of the seas. Comment faire ? Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history in 1999, provides informed, expert commentary linking the documents into a fascinating and seamless narrative. Simulmatics Corporation, whose story Jill Lepore … To add more books, These Truths: A History of the United States, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States, Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents, Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection, Websterisms: A Collection of Words and Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father of American English, Too Many Times: How to End Gun Violence in a Divided America, Building Old Cambridge: Architecture and Development, Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series), The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalists, The Enduring Fascination with Salem Witchcraft, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart, Dieses Amerika: Manifest für eine bessere Nation (Beck Paperback 6379). And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation’s history. Her discipline is worthy of a first-class detective….Lepore convinces us that we should know more about early feminists whose work Wonder Woman drew on and carried forward….A key spotter of connections, Lepore retrieves a remarkably recognizable feminist through-line, showing us 1920s debates about work-life balance, for example, that sound like something from The Atlantic in the past decade.” —New York Review of Books “Even non-comix nerds (or those too young to remember Lynda Carter) will marvel at Jill Lepore’s deep dive into the real-world origins of the Amazonian superhero with the golden lasso. “A madman’s grossly engrossing tale.” —The New York Times, “Revelatory..” —San Francisco Chronicle “We owe Lepore a debt of gratitude for re-introducing us to one of the strangest strangers to have ever walked among us.” —Chicago Tribune, “Lepore specializes in excavating old flashpoints—forgotten or badly misremembered collisions between politics and cultural debates in America’s past. “Everything Lepore writes is distinguished by intelligence, eloquence, and fresh insight. Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers’ questions about who we are as a nation.”, “Astounding… [Lepore] has assembled evidence of an America that was better than some thought, worse than almost anyone imagined, and weirder than most serious history books ever convey. How does life begin? Anytime, anywhere, across your devices. She lays out for our modern sensibility how some event or social problem was fought over by interest groups, reformers, opportunists, and “thought leaders” of the day. Jill Lepore’s fascinating If Then is @bbcradio4 Book of the Week. Blindspot: A Novel by Lepore, Jill; Kamensky, Jane and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. The fact that a polyamory enthusiast created her partly as a tribute to the reproductive-rights pioneer Margaret Sanger is, somehow, only the fourth or fifth most interesting thing in Ms. Woman’s bizarre background.” —New York Magazine “With a defiantly unhurried ease, Lepore reconstructs the prevailing cultural mood that birthed the idea of Wonder Woman, carefully delineating the conceptual debt the character owes to early-20th-century feminism in general and the birth control movement in particular….Again and again, she distills the figures she writes about into clean, simple, muscular prose, making unequivocal assertions that carry a faint electric charge…[and] attain a transgressive, downright badass swagger.” —Slate “Deftly combines biography and cultural history to trace the entwined stories of Marston, Wonder Woman, and 20th-century feminism….Lepore – a professor of American history at Harvard, a New Yorker writer, and the author of “Book of Ages” – is an endlessly energetic and knowledgeable guide to the fascinating backstory of Wonder Woman. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her many books include the international bestseller THESE TRUTHS and THIS AMERICA. Her origins lie in the feminism of the early 1900s, and the intertwined dramas that surrounded her creation are the stuff of pulp fiction and tabloid scandal….It took a super-sleuth to uncover the mysteries of this intricate history, hidden from view for more than half a century. Besides a hefty full-color section of Wonder Woman art in the middle, there are dozens of black-and-white pictures scattered throughout the text. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths.With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history—and the history of the idea of the nation itself—while calling for a “new Americanism”: a generous patriotism that requires an honest reckoning with America’s past.Lepore begins her argument with a primer on the origins of nations, explaining how liberalism, the nation-state, and liberal nationalism, developed together. Cette section est vide, insuffisamment détaillée ou incomplète. The American Revolution. A finalist for the 2013 PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay. Part spellbinding chronicle, part old-fashioned civics book, These Truths, filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation. “Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and These Truths is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. Many of these are panels from Marston’s comics that mirror events in his own life. A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome renowned historian and writer JILL LEPORE for the paperback release of her New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed book, These Truths: A History of the United States. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type. Only Jill Lepore has the verve, wit, range, and insights to pull off this daring and provocative book. Emotional eyewitness accounts--memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence--as well as formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage give body and texture to the historical events described. I will never look at Wonder Woman’s bracelets the same way again.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, “Lepore has an astonishing story and tells it extremely well. She … If the country is to recover from its current crisis. Each title, compiled and edited by a prominent historian, is a collection of primary sources relating to a particular topic of historical significance. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Her many books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a national bestseller, and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. “The Name of War” by Jill Lepore is a useful source, which can be used in analyzing and interpreting the war between the Indian alliance against the English. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, unearthed from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. About Jill Lepore. Think again. These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. Biographie. This will be an instant classic.”, —Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies that Bind, “Anyone interested in the future of the Republic must read this book.