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Bezig met laden... These Truths: A History of the United States (editie 2018)door Jill Lepore (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThese Truths: A History of the United States door Jill Lepore    Bezig met laden...
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 Lepore doesn’t cop to her own biases. Nor does she argue which systems of government are more insidious than others, though she has no trouble denouncing American slavery, American racism, Jim Crow, segregation and the on-going, never ending war (or so it seems) against African Americans. ... If I were a good liberal I might say that my criticism of the book does not detract from its glory, and that it’s a triumph of scholarship. I can’t say that. I won’t say it. These Truths has moments of glory, but it will not help us as a nation and as a people to cut though the lies and the fake news of the Trump era.  Those devoted to an honest reckoning with America’s past have their work cut out for them. Lepore’s book is a good place to start.  It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment. This book is aimed at a mass audience, driven by anecdote and statistic, memoir and photograph, with all the giants of American history in their respective places. There wasn’t a moment when I struggled to keep reading. We need this book. Its reach is long, its narrative fresh and the arc of its account sobering to say the least. This is not Whig history. It is a classic tale of a unique country’s astonishing rise and just-as-inevitable fall. This vivid history is a must-read for anyone wrestling with today's toxic political environment. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
"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. 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 dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths, or belied them. "A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, 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. A spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, These Truths offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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De basis van de staatsvorming is verkeerd geweest; tegen beter weten in is gekozen voor een weg naar blanke suprematie en het recht van de sterkste. Een weg die geplaveid is met rechteloosheid, manipulatie, leugens en “aanpassing” van feiten.
Deze prima geschreven studie is indrukwekkend en ontluisterend bovendien. (