The story of America : essays on origins

Author

Jill Lepore

Call Number

• 973 L598.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Physical Description

viii, 416 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories -- from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address -- to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print.