Jill Lepore These truths

a history of the United States

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... 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 history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--'these truths, ' Jefferson called...

Engels | 932 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 2018

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Jill Lepore New York burning

liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan

Engels | 323 pagina's | Vintage Books, New York | 2006

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Jill Lepore If then

how one data company invented the future

The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine"...

Engels | 415 pagina's | John Murray, London | 2020

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Jill Lepore Joe Gould's teeth

Zoektocht van een historica naar het bewijs van het bestaan van het omvangrijkste boek ooit, 'The oral history of our time' door Joe Gould (1889-1957).

Non-fictie

Engels | 235 pagina's | Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York | 2017

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