"This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free... excellent book" -- David Aaronovitch - The Times
"... Jill Lepore’s These Truths may restore faith in American ideals." -- From Trump to These Truths: what to read to make sense of politics in 2019 - The Guardian
"…clear-eyed history of the country." -- The Economist
"…one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy." -- Simon Winchester - New Statesman
"I’m ending the year back in the real world though, reading the most fabulously written history of the USA called These Truths by Jill Lepore." -- Armando Lannucci, '2018's Best Books' - The Big Issue
"This is a tale told with the verve of a great teacher, the modulated literary style of a high-class novelist and the generous, careful eye of a historian who treats her sources as precious artefacts not as subjects for plunder." -- History Today
"The most honest and unflinching account of the American story I’ve ever read" -- Bill Gates’ '5 Favorite Books Of 2019' - Forbes
"A The New York Times Bestseller"

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.