That made it irresistible." - Winter Reads 2018-19: the best books of the season - Times Higher Education "I love Lepore's writing in The New Yorker, and the book is pitched as a major standard history of the US. "Jill Lepore's sweeping nonfiction narrative of America doesn't just chronicle our history it rewrites it, illuminating the direct line between the country's past and polarized present." - Newsweek International "This sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion." - Editor's Choice - The New York Times Book Review " one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs." - Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times "By emphasising founding fathers and presidents, and charismatic leaders on both sides of the political divide, makes history vivid." - Ten books to read in September - BBC Culture extraordinary book." - On my Radar: Anand Giridharadas - The Guardian excellent book." - David Aaronovitch - The Times "This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free. The feat of compression is rarely attempted, still less in one volume, and Ms Lepore brings a refreshingly modern eye to a daunting task." - The Economist
All of them, from the Trail of Tears to the Twin Towers, from White Power to Watergate, appear, exciting and page-turningly fascinating, in one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy." - Simon Winchester - New Statesman
There have been more than a few moments in the last two centuries, moments racked by crisis and scandal, incompetence and insurgency, which have competed to test that capability. "These Truths is a crucial work for presenting a fresh and clear-sighted narrative of the entire story, Columbus soup to Trump nuts, of what is at present a most terribly troubled nation. Do read her magnificent book, but just remember that it's not the whole story." - The Spectator
"The history of the American South is one of change, power struggle, political bending from Left to Right, negotiating race, and all of this cannot be contained in one volume or by one narrative that at times feels too neat - even if Lepore is a truly gifted writer with profound insight into those she writes about.
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