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In our age of in-the-moment news feeds, the larger contexts of events have no time to reveal themselves. Providing such a view is the first benefit of Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of the United States, published last year. It starts with the European discovery of the American continent and takes us along, in a continuous narrative, to the election of 2016. Inviting in tone and constantly surprising in its examination of the unsettled nature of the past, it offers a long, eye-opening perspect
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For a British reader who only knew about key moments of American history, mainly from film or fiction, this was an excellent and easily readable overview of the colonisation of the thirteen original states, creation of the United States and the subsequent political history up to 2018 (although the last chapter feels less like history than good journalism).
Although a big book, with nearly 800 pages of text plus over 100 pages of notes and index, it is well structured and organised to describe the ...more
Although a big book, with nearly 800 pages of text plus over 100 pages of notes and index, it is well structured and organised to describe the ...more
Sep 18, 2018
Mary Ann
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Nocturnalux
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Shay
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Stone Talus
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Sep 04, 2025
Jacob Medina
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