![]() ![]() In developing this idea, Lepore’s book covers multiple topics with stunning rapidity, elegant compression, and apparent erudition. ![]() The book covers many cultural and social issues-as well as constitutional and regulatory matters, on which she takes a strong and uncritical progressive stance that sees government intervention as an essential tool to correct the imbalances of the market. But if Jefferson was a small government thinker, Lepore is not. The title of the book is an explicit echo of Thomas Jefferson’s famous words in the Declaration of Independence. Her aim is to distill in 932 densely packed pages the history of an entire nation. ![]() Few books have received as much instantaneous acclaim as Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s These Truths: A History of the United States. ![]()
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