By engaging with our country's painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.”, “A splendid rendering—filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope—that will please Lepore’s readers immensely and win her many new ones.”, “This thought-provoking and fascinating book stands to become the definitive one-volume U.S. history for a new generation.”, “An ambitious and provocative attempt to interpret American history as an effort to fulfill and maintain certain fundamental principles. Any revenue realized from this program goes into a general account to help fund C-SPAN operations. Combined with Lepore’s zippy prose, it all makes for a supremely engaging reading experience.” —Etelka Lehoczky, NPR “If it makes your head spin to imagine a skimpily clad pop culture icon as (spoiler alert!) “The rest is noise.” Lepore is implying, I believe, that clemency or immunity might be on offer in exchange for Trump officials’ cooperation in forming a full record of the administration’s misdeeds. ", "This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free", "A history for the 21st century, far more inclusive than the standard histories of the past", "Monumental ... a crucial work for presenting a fresh and clear-sighted narrative of the entire story ... exciting and page-turningly fascinating, in one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy", "Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style", A New York Times and National Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize, "Ms. Lepore’s lively, surprising and occasionally salacious history is far more than the story of a comic strip. In her hands, the Wonder Woman story unpacks not only a new cultural history of feminism, but a theory of history as well.” —New York Times Book Review “Lepore specializes in excavating old flashpoints—forgotten or badly misremembered collisions between politics and cultural debates in America’s past. Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers’ questions about who we are as a nation.”, “Astounding… [Lepore] has assembled evidence of an America that was better than some thought, worse than almost anyone imagined, and weirder than most serious history books ever convey. It is dangerous to permit criminal political elites to retain their social and financial capital undisturbed. The belief that history is capable of delivering a “verdict” is of recent vintage. Others have made this point well, but as Adam McKay’s film Vice makes clear, if Nixon cronies like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had been excluded by a GOP truly committed to cleaning house of that band of political dark artists, the history of the past 20 years would be totally different. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Articles by Jill Lepore on Muck Rack. And that is what is ultimately wrong with Lepore’s faith in history and historians to do the hard work of national reckoning. Each chapter is carefully shaped. I am not recommending any particular course of action—I have grave qualms about carceral solutions, for one thing—but Lepore’s willingness to let crimes slide in favor of a more perfect collection of government documents is not a noble devotion to objectivity, so much as it is an advancement of the long-term professional prerogatives and agendas of historians ahead of the more exigent necessities of reconstruction and justice. Historian Jill Lepore photographed last month near her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I should know—I’m a historian, too. The fact that a polyamory enthusiast created her partly as a tribute to the reproductive-rights pioneer Margaret Sanger is, somehow, only the fourth or fifth most interesting thing in Ms. Woman’s bizarre background.” —New York Magazine “With a defiantly unhurried ease, Lepore reconstructs the prevailing cultural mood that birthed the idea of Wonder Woman, carefully delineating the conceptual debt the character owes to early-20th-century feminism in general and the birth control movement in particular….Again and again, she distills the figures she writes about into clean, simple, muscular prose, making unequivocal assertions that carry a faint electric charge…[and] attain a transgressive, downright badass swagger.” —Slate “Deftly combines biography and cultural history to trace the entwined stories of Marston, Wonder Woman, and 20th-century feminism….Lepore – a professor of American history at Harvard, a New Yorker writer, and the author of “Book of Ages” – is an endlessly energetic and knowledgeable guide to the fascinating backstory of Wonder Woman. Don't Come Any Closer: What's at stake in our fables of contagion? Lepore: Let historians judge Trump October 17, 2020 October 17, 2020 / johnfea As Jill Lepore writes in her recent piece at The Washington Post , several politicians, pundits, and commentators are calling for a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with Trump and his supporters after the president leaves office. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995.
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