One of the thrilling and challenging realities of studying history is this humdinger: pick your time in history, and you can say “They didn’t know how it would turn out.”īarely weeks away from the November 1864 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln expected that he would lose his bid to stay in office. These Truths offers two things that I crave when I’m reading/learning history: context, and a penetrating commitment to seek truth in terms of what they were thinking and what they knew way back when. Jill Lepore makes it easy to read authoritative accounts of our history as a nation. We don’t know how it’s going to turn out…īook review: These Truths: A History of the United Statesĩ32 pages, including fabulous extended note, bibliography, index
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