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The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022

English

By (author): Jill Lepore

'America's greatest living essayist . . . Wonderful' Fintan O'Toole

A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.

The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's election, through to the chaos and confusion left in its wake. Here we encounter Americans' rising techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented - but armed - aimlessness.

With the wit and verve that has made her the acclaimed national historian of a generation, these essays reflect on the consuming public fissures of this era: culture wars and the corrosion of the media; disruptive innovation and the future of technology; constitutional crises surrounding gun rights and the racial history behind the very language of insurrection. Balancing a penetrating personal lens with indispensable history, she makes sense of life in a moment of aberration and extremity that has left our political landscape forever changed.

The American Beast offers an arresting portrait of America, capturing the tumultuous relationship between the country's violent past and fractured present.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781399810180

About Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University where she teaches classes in evidence historical methods the humanities and American political history. She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (winner of the Bancroft Prize) New York Burning: Liberty Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) The Secret History of Wonder Woman (winner of the American History Book Prize) If Then (longlisted for the National Book Award) and many other titles. She is a staff writer at the New Yorker host of the podcast The Last Archive and was the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in 2021.

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