These Truths

The American experiment rests on three ideasthese truths, Jefferson called thempolitical equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching, writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nations history. Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks whether the course of events has proven the nations founding truths or belied them. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. This spellbinding chronicle offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.