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The Deadline

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"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America's best historians; it's fair to say she's one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times TIME • 10 Best Books of August 2023 A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans' techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and...
Request Code : ZLIBIO4456179
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Liveright
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781631496127
ISBN:
9781631496134,9781631496127

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