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The Deadline: Essays
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From the highly political to the intensely personal, this collection sets the standard for the beloved art form that is the essay. Lepore deftly explores various touchpoints in the American societal landscape, adding to the ongoing narrative of what this country really is, and what it’s meant to be.
"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times
Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIME
A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brough...