{"product_id":"2940170618439","title":"These Truths: A History of the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 ideas amp;mdash; \"these truths\", Jefferson called them amp;mdash; political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, \"[O]n 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn riveting prose, \u003ci\u003eThese Truths\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history\", Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, \u003ci\u003eThese Truths\u003c\/i\u003e offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162374947056,"sku":"2940170618439","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170618439_p0.jpg?v=1763714278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170618439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}