These truths:

"These truths" tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation's truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. "A nation born in contradiction... will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history", Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With "These truths", Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.