THESE TRUTHS

n 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 ideasthese truths, Jefferson called thempolitical e quality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on 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 r...[Read more]