We know how all of this is going to end: with Donald J. Trump.
I'm referring specifically to Jill Lepore's “These Truths: A History of the United States,” though over the course of her hefty account of the American experience, one might begin to wonder about the fate of the republic itself.
Not that Lepore is one to stoke panic. Her one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.
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