These truths jill lepore review6/23/2023 My birth certificate sufficed my ignorance was never questioned or corrected. I moved back here easily, when I was nineteen years old. I didn’t have to pass a test or learn about this country or understand any more of it than any non-American understands about the place that gave us McDonald’s, the Internet, the iPhone. The history I was taught from the ages of six to eighteen was both condensed and elongated, the history of a fledgling country full of war but also of an ancient people once enslaved and long persecuted.īut I was born in the U.S., which makes me a citizen. I was raised in Israel, a much younger country that was handed over by a colonizing force to a people desperate for a home back in the days-not so long ago, really-when colonizers could simply gift the land they’d taken as if it were theirs to give. A nine-hundred-plus-page tome, it is a full history of the United States, a country I was born in and soon after left. This thought kept blinking through my mind, like a neon sign on a dark street, as I read These Truths, the newest book by the Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Jill Lepore.
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