**New York Times BestsellerIn 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 history.**Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s histo...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY 2026**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION 2025THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A THE ECONOMIST, HISTORY TODAY, NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAROn the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a l...

Deze waarheden is de briljante weerslag van de bewogen geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In fonkelend proza beschrijft Jill Lepore de worsteling van Amerika met haar eigen historie en met de fundamentele waarheden waarop zij als natie is gebouwd: gelijkheid van alle mensen, soevereiniteit, en het recht op leven, vrijheid en het streven naar geluk. Dit boek voorziet die worsteling van historische context. Een erudiete, messcherpe analyse van de Amerikaanse politiek, het recht, de journa...

BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—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 to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Le...

In de zomer van 1741 braken in New York in korte tijd tien mysterieuze branden uit. Al gauw ging het gerucht dat opstandige slaafgemaakten de stad met de grond gelijk wilden maken. De gealarmeerde slavenhouders, Hollanders vooral, en Engelsen, zetten een meedogenloze strafexpeditie in. Honderden slaafgemaakten werden voor het witte gerecht gesleept. Veertien mensen eindigden op de brandstapel, zeventien aan de galg. In dit meesterlijk geschreven boek reconstrueert Jill Lepore deze dramatis...

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR**'A stunning mosaic of contemporary America' Fintan O'Toole'E**ssential reading, with quick insights and bomblets of surprise' TLSA panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The 2010s marked a shift in America's trajectory, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's election, through to the chaos and confusion lef...

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 centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type.Part civics primer, part cultural history, The Story of America

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryLonglisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction"[Lepore's] 15th book,

Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos' David RuncimanThe Simulmatics Corpor...

Messcherp portret van een verdeelde en stuurloze natie Amerika is in het afgelopen decennium ingrijpender veranderd dan in de vijftig jaar daarvoor en staat voor een cruciale fase in zijn geschiedenis. In twintig briljante beschouwingen ontrafelt Jill Lepore de tumultueuze troebelingen waaraan Amerika ten prooi is – in de politiek en daarbuiten: het presidentschap van Donald Trump en de chaos die erop volgde, maar ook andere ontwikkelingen die de Amerikaanse samenleving ontwrichten. De cul...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionOne of President Bill Clinton’s “Best Things I’ve Read This Year”From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.“Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment WeeklyThe Secret Histor...