Book description
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional…
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1 author picked The Deadline as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jill Lapore’s essays startle, offering unexpected angles on topics I thought I understood. As an example, she enriched my insights into this country’s founding by profiling Benjamin Franklin’s sister. Lapore possesses a joyful curiosity and expansive intelligence.
The essays may seem diverse and unrelated, but I longed for each new evocation.
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With Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America’s new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight, bipartisan partnership at a bitterly partisan time…
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