Encounters in the New World : A History in Documents

Children's Books

Jill Lepore

History

Tandem Library

Joe Gould's Teeth

Vintage

These Truths: A History Of The United States, With Sources (volume 1)

WW Norton & Co.

These Truths: A History of the United States with Sources (Volume 1)

W.W.Norton

The American Beast (paperback)

John Murray Press

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.][Read by John Lee and Cassandra Campbell] Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is the story of a Scottish portrait painter and his apprentice, a fallen woman from one of Boston's most powerful families who has disguised herself as a boy.

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise: A Novel [Library Binding]

Literature & Fiction

Jane Kamensky

United States

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise: A Novel

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce.

If Then

John Murray

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the space age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.

Mansion of Happiness, The

Americas

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Jill Lepore. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Jill Lepore