![]() ![]() “Slavery wasn’t an aberration in an industrial economy slavery was its engine,” she reminds. ![]() Stewart and preacher David Walker to contemporaries like “rascal” Bill Clinton, sporting a “grin like a 1930s comic-strip scamp.” “To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present,” writes the author, noting recurrent debates about guns, abortion, and race. ![]() Lepore offers crisp, vivid portraits of individuals from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine to Liberator writer Maria W. ![]() The author recounts major events-the Revolution, Civil War, world wars, Vietnam, 9/11, and the war on terror-while emphasizing the importance of facts and evidence in the national story, as well as the roles of slavery (“America’s Achilles’ heel”) and women, both absent in the founding documents. In this mammoth, wonderfully readable history of the United States from Columbus to Trump, the author relies on primary sources to “let the dead speak for themselves,” creating an enthralling, often dramatic narrative of the American political experiment based on Thomas Jefferson’s “truths” of political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. “A nation born in revolution will forever struggle against chaos,” writes Lepore (History/Harvard Univ. The celebrated New Yorker writer and Bancroft Prize winner tells the American story. ![]()
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