Jill Lepore: 12 books
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
The Mansion of Happiness
A History of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens...
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
The Name of War
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indians—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific...
The Story of America
Essays on Origins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over...
The Whites of Their Eyes
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's...
Book of Ages
The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
National Book Award Finalist
From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd...
A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.
In A is for American,...
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered...
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Blindspot
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
BONUS: This edition contains a Blindspot discussion guide.
Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores—in the city of Boston, lately seized with the spirit of liberty. Eager to begin anew, he advertises for...