If the historian is committed to democracy, as most textbook writers are, then the agents of history are presumed to be “the people.” We the people need a national history because, after all, America still exists, and the course of our history will depend, tautologically, on us-the same us that is also, in theory, history’s readers. The journalist (.)Ģ Most textbooks push that ending back by returning, in those final pages that few students ever read, to founding principles-to the truths expressed in the Declaration of Independence, say, or in the Constitution’s preamble-and concluding with the hope that American reality will one day meet them. 1 Sacvan Bercovitch, American Jeremiad (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978).
To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation?s truths, or belied them. The American experiment rests on three ideas?these truths,? Jefferson called them?political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. Widely hailed for its ?sweeping, sobering account of the American past? (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore?s one-volume history of America places truth itself?a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence?at the center of the nation?s history. But before you download we should know a little explanation about this Ebook. You can download this Ebook with The high image resolution and can also have file formats Kindle. Download or Read These Truths: A History of the United States PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Audiobook For Free.
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