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These Truths

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by Jill Lepore


  Allied need for U.S. in, 477–78

  blacks in, 496–503, 500, 508

  meaning of, 492–93

  mobilization for, 485–87

  Pacific War in, 493–94

  power of government expanded by, 487–88

  start of, 473

  turning of tide of, 502–3

  World Wide Web, 731

  Wozniak, Stephen, 695

  Wright, Fanny, 228

  Wright, Richard, 441, 443

  Wright, Silas, 225, 241

  writing:

  history and, 12–13, 15

  invention of, 12

  Y2K bug, 729–30

  Yalta Conference (1945), 508–10, 509, 514, 535

  Yancey, William, 281

  Yaqui Indians, 222

  Yates v. United States, 573

  Yoo, John, 746–47

  Yorktown, Va., Cornwallis’s surrender in, 103, 104

  You Are the Message (Ailes), 705

  Yugoslavia, 400

  Zenger, John Peter, 61–63, 83, 131, 291

  arrest and trial of, 62–63, 64

  Zheng He, 11

  Zimmerman, Alice, 394

  Zimmerman, George, 763, 767

  Zuckerberg, Mark, 736

  Zuni, 23

  Zwicker, Ralph, 566

  ALSO BY JILL LEPORE

  Joe Gould’s Teeth

  The Secret History of Wonder Woman

  Book of Ages:

  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

  The Story of America:

  Essays on Origins

  The Mansion of Happiness:

  A History of Life and Death

  The Whites of Their Eyes:

  The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History

  New York Burning:

  Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

  A Is for American:

  Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States

  The Name of War:

  King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker.

  The daughter of public school teachers, Lepore always wanted to be a writer, but spent years working odd jobs: newspaper girl, chambermaid, prep cook, secretary, public opinion survey caller, and shoe store clerk. She went to Tufts University on an ROTC scholarship as a math major but ended up graduating with a BA in English in 1987. After an MA in American culture from the University of Michigan, she finished a PhD in American Studies at Yale University in 1995.

  She began teaching at Harvard in 2003 and started writing for The New Yorker in 2005. Her books and essays have been widely translated, including in German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Swedish, French, Chinese, and Japanese. In 2012, she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching; she also teaches at Harvard Law School. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she is also past president of the Society of American Historians.

  Much of Lepore’s scholarship explores absences and asymmetries of evidence in the historical record. She likes to think about how people know what they know. Her earlier work includes a political history trilogy: The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (1998), winner of the Bancroft Prize; New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (2013), a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her 2014 book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, was a national bestseller and winner of the American History Book Prize.

  She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and three sons.

  Copyright © 2018 by Jill Lepore

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