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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.
Lepore is America's greatest living essayist. No one else can sway so gracefully between the personal and the political, the micro and the macro, while remaining so firmly grounded in common human experience . . . These wonderful essays form a stunning mosaic of contemporary America and an alternative annal of our times -- Fintan O'Toole If you want to know how America got here, Lepore's essays are essential reading, with quick insights and bomblets of surprise -- TLS Lepore is a brilliant historian . . . She sees history as a narrative and digs deep to investigate the root cause of problems -- Irish Times PRAISE FOR JILL LEPORE: The pre-eminent historian of forgotten tales from America's past -- David Runciman A person can't help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing -- George Saunders Lepore writes history like a poet -- Dan Snow Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style -- Amanda Foreman A compelling political narrative -- David Kynaston
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