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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.

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 election, through to the chaos and confusion left in its wake. Here we encounter Americans' rising techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unp...

A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.

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, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in Th...

Wonder Woman ist die beliebteste Superheldin aller Zeiten - die Amazonenkriegerin mit dem goldenen Lasso ist selbstbewusst, unkonventionell, attraktiv und eine exzellente Kämpferin. Ihre einzige Schwäche: Legt ein Mann sie in Ketten, verliert sie all ihre Kraft. Jill Lepores berühmtes, nun endlich auch auf Deutsch vorliegendes Buch ist nicht weniger als ein Geniestreich. Es erzählt die Geschichte des Comics und seines exzentrischen Erfinders -...

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The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge-decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Although Silicon Valley likes to imagine that it has no past, the scientists of Simulmatics are almost undoubtedly the long-dead ancestors of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk-or so argues Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard histo...

Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year'Back in the 1960s, long before the denizens of Silicon Valley were infiltrating every facet of our lives, the smart men and women of The Simulmatics Corporation were creating algorithms to predict and even influence human behaviour. Jill Lepore reveals how this forgotten company invented the data-weapons of the future. If Then is simultaneously gripping and absolutely...

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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 that it has no past, but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to pred...

Back in the 1960s, long before the denizens of Silicon Valley were infiltrating every facet of our lives, the smart men and women of The Simulmatics Corporation were creating algorithms to predict and even influence human behaviour. Jill Lepore reveals how this forgotten company invented the data-weapons of the future. If Then is simultaneously gripping and absolutely terrifying' Amanda Foreman'An authoritative account of the origins of data s...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.

Während die liberalen Demokratien weltweit unter Druck geraten und in den USA Präsident Trump eine zweite Amtszeit anstrebt, legt die gefeierte Historikerin Jill Lepore ein Manifest vor, das dem Rechtspopulismus eine seiner Lieblingsvokabeln streitig macht - die Nation. Die liberalen Eliten, so Lepore, haben die Nation viel zu lange den Rechten überlassen und zahlen dafür nun einen hohen Preis: Der neue Nationalismus von rechts verschlingt den...

Picked as a Bill Clinton Book of 2019'Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style' Amanda Foreman'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York Times

A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York TimesFrom the acclaimed historian comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.

Die Amerikaner stammen von Sklaven und Sklavenhaltern ab, von Eroberern und Eroberten, von Einwanderern und von Gegnern der Einwanderung. "Eine Nation, die im Widerspruch mit sich selbst geboren wurde, wird für immer um den Sinn ihrer Geschichte kämpfen", schreibt Jill Lepore. "Die Vergangenheit ist ein Vermächtnis, ein Geschenk und eine Last. Sie lässt sich nicht umgehen. Es bleibt einem nichts anderes übrig, als sie zur Kenntnis zu nehmen." ...

At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history-and the history of the idea of the nation itself-while calling for a "ne...

The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation's history. Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks whether the course...