These Truths
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These Truths
| Full title | These Truths: A History of the United States |
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| Author | Jill Lepore |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 922 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| 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 heard about it
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Spotted at Powell’s Books at PDX — December 2019 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — July 2025 (Books photo album)
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@typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- History · Institutions · Democracy — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.