These Truths - A History of the United States - Jill Lepore Audiobook
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Length: 29 hours and 9 minutes
NOTE: While it can be difficult to listen to Lepore narrate her own book, and while she would have been better served by engaging a professional narrator, her book is, nevertheless, an important one and one worth gritting your teeth and dealing with her narration, because what this book has to say is quite amazing.
Summary:
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, “[O]n 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.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
December 31st, 2018
Thank you
January 3rd, 2019
Thanks for this. You’re right, an absolutely brilliant writer. As a narrator, not so much. People might enjoy her discussion of the book with Ezra Klein on his podcast: https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/6747dee3-e0d1-4b22-89a4-cd64dd6dd288
January 4th, 2019
bigskytroutbum2, you nailed it. She actually sounded better with Ezera (no pun intended) than she does narrating her work, where she has this nit where her version of quoting something is to yell that part of the narration. She sounds reasonably better when she is just relaxed and talking.
January 6th, 2019
I listened to this whole thing. They probably should have had a professional narrator do it instead of her but it is still an excellent listen. She kinda grew on me after a while. Anyway, a very solid, informative, ambitious book.
January 27th, 2019
Thank you very much. I love Lepore!
January 24th, 2020
Saw this on gate’s book list - thanks ssafe05!
August 17th, 2020
Ezra Klein Interview with the author, Jill Lepore, discussing the material in this book (the link another reviewer provided is dead, so maybe one of these will still be live when you try it) -
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/57992903
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-ezra-klein-show/jill-lepore-on-americas-two-Vk-_a6wSeqJ/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jill-lepore-on-what-i-get-wrong/id1081584611?i=1000464782668
https://player.fm/series/the-ezra-klein-show/jill-lepore-on-what-i-get-wrong
September 12th, 2020
please seed.
November 13th, 2020
@ssafe05 Thanks so much for this! Would love to read/listen her new book “If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future”.
July 26th, 2025
please seed!!
September 19th, 2025
Please seed!!!!
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