The Story of America: Essays on Origins Hardcover - 2012
by Jill Lepore
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"As both a Jeremiah and a troubadour, Jill Lepore has one of the most distinctive voices in American literary life. So skilled in the art of the essay, she has a sense of narrative that is breathtaking. She tells resounding, surprising stories about real people forging American roots and development, but always through a deeply documented history. Both subtly and explosively, Lepore brings the power of history right into your lap and makes you shudder at just how deeply tangled past and present really are."--David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
"Jill Lepore is one of America's most interesting scholars--a distinguished historian and a brilliant essayist. This prolific collection of articles and essays is a remarkable body of work that moves from early America to our present, contentious age."--Alan Brinkley, author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
"Jill Lepore is one of our finest historians of the battle over the story called 'America, ' which, as she says, is constantly being fought over and over. In this stunning collection of essays, Lepore makes the case that the rise of democracy is bound up with the history of its reading and writing. That history is conflicted, ragged, and contradictory but, in Lepore's capable hands, as gripping and compelling as a novel."--Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University
"Concise, clear, vivid, witty, insightful, and rich in turns of phrase. More than any other historian I know, Lepore cares about good writing and has a talent for making sophisticated ideas accessible to a broad readership."--Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies
"Jill Lepore's storytelling power is on full display here. As much literary exercises as historical inquiries, these essays are compact, highly readable, and often written from an unexpected angle. Combining a lightness of touch with the authority of a historian who knows her field inside out, Lepore moves effortlessly through the length of American history."--Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
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- Title The Story of America: Essays on Origins
- Author Jill Lepore
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition.
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2012-10
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691153995 / 069115399X
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.5 in (21.59 x 14.99 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Sources, United States - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012016854
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/2012, Page 10
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 12/01/2012, Page 94
- New York Review of Books, 10/25/2012, Page 57
- Publishers Weekly, 09/17/2012, Page 0
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