With the invention of digital media, nobody ever thought, Hey, what's good about a newspaper? Disruptive innovation became a fantasy of technological change, but it's spilled over into politics too. It's like, "Oh no, you might actually change things slowly!" And that is actually what you're supposed to do. For example, Facebook's thing is "Move fast and break things." That involves an abdication of the past, because if you think about the past, you will only produce incremental change. I wrote an essay for The New Yorker in 2014, " The Disruption Machine," in which I argue that Silicon Valley's idea of disruptive innovation is a fallacy. We don't study it in a meaningful way, and that's only gotten worse because of this STEM nonsense. This book is neither kind." Rather, she tells Newsweek, her goal was "to write an account of history that would explain the origins of the democratic institutions we take for granted-some of which are in free fall right now." "Some American history books fail to criticize the United States," Lepore writes in her introduction. The title refers to the three political ideas-equality, natural rights and popular sovereignty-outlined by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, and the book recounts America's history from Christopher Columbus to President Donald Trump. But These Truths, at least in terms of ambition, leaves her previous efforts in the dust. Lepore, a professor of American history at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written multiple award-winning books, among them 2010's The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party Revolution and the Battle Over American History 2013's Book of Ages, about Benjamin Franklin's sister Jane and 2014's best-selling The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
The result is: These Truths: A History of the United States (W.W. Where, Lepore wondered, was the comprehensive narrative of America that tied together our past and present? She decided to write it herself.
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