Kyle Harrison
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These Truths

These Truths: A History of the United States
Author
Jill Lepore
Published
2018
Pages
922
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Lepore’s one-volume American history organised around a question the founding raised and never settled — whether a nation can be governed by consent and reason.

Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787

Connections

  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • History · Institutions · Democracy — where this sits in the corpus.