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How Rights Went Wrong - Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart by Jamal Greene; Jill Lepore (Foreword by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice."--from the foreword by J ...Show more
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you cr ...Show more
If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simu ...Show more
It's up to the Women by Eleanor Roosevelt; Jill Lepore (Introduction by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking a personal resp ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 electi ...Show more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including never-before-seen private papers, Harvard historian and New Yorkerstaff writer Jill Lepore reveals the fascinating fami ...Show more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A riveting work that reveals the origin of one of American popular culture's most iconic figures - a story that hides within it not only a fascinating family saga but a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. From the author of the National Book Award finalist Book of Ages. Wonder Woman, created ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
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Category: History
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
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