02055cam a2200397 i 4500 360458364 TxAuBib 20181018120000.0 180812s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018019180 9780393635249 0393635244 (OCoLC)1021807194 TxAuBib rda Lepore, Jill, 1966- These truths : a history of the United States / Jill Lepore. First edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] xx, 932 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part one: The idea (1492-1799). The nature of the past -- The rulers and the ruled -- Of wars and revolutions -- The constitution of a nation -- Part two: The people (1800-1865). A democracy of numbers -- The soul and the machine -- Of ships and shipwrecks -- The face of battle -- Part three: The state (1866-1945). Of citizens, persons, and people -- Efficiency and the masses -- A constitution of the air -- The brutality of modernity -- Part four: The machine (1946-2016). A world of knowledge -- Rights and wrongs -- Battle lines -- America, disrupted. Library Journal Prepub Alert, 041518, p. 47. Kirkus Review - Adult, 061518, p. 71. Booklist, 070118, p. 12. Publisher's Weekly,071618. Library Journal, 090118, p. 67. "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"--Provided by publisher. 20181018. Civil rights United States. United States History. United States Politics and government. TXMAR