![]() ![]() 18, and weighing in at a whopping 932 pages, could not be better timed, or titled, as reviewers have noted. To not adjust to end there just seemed wrong, like a dereliction of duty as a historian.” ![]() “It was just a watershed political moment. “I realized I needed to change the last chapter,” she said. Then came Donald Trump’s surprise victory. A lot of themes were popping right then.” “It seemed like a good landing, not in a partisan way, but as a matter of American history. “I had planned to end with Obama’s inauguration,” she said in a recent interview in her office, deep in the stacks of Widener Library at Harvard, where she has taught since 2003. ![]() On Election Day 2016, Jill Lepore was deep into working on “These Truths,” her sprawling new history of the United States (in the middle of her chapter about the Civil War, as it happens). But sometimes, the present has other ideas. Historians can be wary of writing about the present. ![]()
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