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by Jill Lepore (Author)
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin stories
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.
Author Biography
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution; These Truths: A History of the United States; and The Whites of Their Eyes (Princeton).
