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File Size: 115520 KB
Print Length: 955 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (September 18, 2018)
Publication Date: September 18, 2018
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07BLKWBYT
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A nightmare of whopper errors of fact plus errors of interpretationThis book has been heavily touted.That makes it all the more disconcerting to see an error as early as page 8 and a whopper to boot.Indeed, beyond that as representative of numerous errors of fact, there’s numerous arguable errors of interpretation, and dubious decisions what to contain and what to omit.Behind THAT, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, as far as I can tell, there’s no “there†there.With that, let’s dig in.Page 8: No, pre-Columbian American Indians did NOT herd pigs because there were none in the New World!18: Contra Lepore, plenty of plants went from New World to Old, and quickly became common parts of Old World diets. Tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize and chiles are the obvious ones.33: Kind-of sort-of on the Virginia Colony. Its original grant went to today’s Canadian border on the coast; a reformulation in 1609 changed that. Hence the worries of the Separtists fears of settling in Plimouth in 1620, even though they had no charter from the crown for anywhere.By page 45 or so, I realized that I would find little to nothing in the book in the way of facts that were new to me.So, I started skipping and grokking. (Flame me, those who will.)116ff. Ignores larger background of Shays Rebellion, and issues related to this in the Washington Administration, ie, the promissory notes for land offered to veterans, speculation on them and repurchase, etc.145: America had political factions, and alliances, of various sorts long before federalists and anti-federalists. And the Founders knew that. 1790s newspapers did not spring parties into being, and the Founders should have known that.World War I take? Wasting pages on Germany being criticized by fundamentalists for higher criticism, and making that the intro to Bryan and Scopes, with almost zero coverage of the controversy over entry into the war itself, and Bryan’s time as Secretary of State? Horrible. As for Wilson’s health, he arguably had at least one mild-moderate stroke, and more than one mini-strokes or TIAs, a few years before the War.242: Polk couldn’t have “wanted to acquire Florida,†as the U.S. had acquired it all by 1821242: Russia had renounced its Oregon claims by the time Polk became President. Spain had in the Adams-Onis treaty sidebars, and thus, any later Mexican claims (contra Lepore, there surely weren’t) would be rejected by the US anyway.250: No, the Mexican War boundary line did NOT end up at the 36th parallel of latitude after Polk allegedly gave up on seeking the 26th parallel. El Paso is at the 32nd parallel. The Mexico-California border is approximately 32°30’. Also, I’ve never seen claims that Polk wanted Mexico down to the 26th parallel. Indeed, Polk even specifically mentions the 32nd parallel in his December, 1847 State of the Union. (I'll put a URL in comments, because AMAZON!)(I jumped back here after moving ahead to WWI, as she said little about Spanish settlement in today’s Southwest. She had little more on New Mexico of wartime Mexico’s possession.)Even worse, on her Polk land-seeking claims, this heavily footnoted book had NO footnotes.406: No, most the world did NOT support “free trade†before WWI.408: No, the 1924 immigration bill did not make immigrant proportional to current (of that time) population. It went back to the ethnic numbers of the 1890 Census.410: I see no need to put “illegal alien†in scare quotes after first reference.450: Doesn’t mention FDR playing a behind-the-scenes role in the defeat of Upton Sinclair. Doesn’t even mention that he refused to publicly endorse him. Doesn’t mention that he tried to get Sinclair to drop out and that support was offered to GOP incumbent Merriam when he refused.452: No, the American PR factory was not democracy’s answer to fascism. In the US, it goes back at least as far as Teddy Roosevelt. And LePore even mentions Emil Hurja’s pre-1933 work. David Greenberg has the correct answers on all of this in “Republic of Spin." (I'll put a URL in comments, because AMAZON!)548: AFL-CIO (and big biz) opposed Truman’s national health care plan, not just AMA. The unions saw health insurance as a recruiting tool.717: Given that Bush v Gore was the apotheosis of a further rightward shift of the Supreme Court, it gets short shrift.Basically, after I got a little way into the book, I began wondering what her intended audience was, and what her angle was. I had in mind something like Howard Zinn’s book. Zinn had several errors of interpretation, but he had an interpretive focus.With LePore, as noted, it seems to be no “there†there, per Gertrude Stein. Yes, she goes intellectual with the extended references to John Locke. Yes, she goes deep history with several pages about Magna Carta (without telling you it was honored by English kings more in the breach than the observance up to the time of Charles I).Then I realized: Her target audience is readers of the New Yorker plus non-social science batchelor’s level Harvard grads or something like that. Socially liberal — the repeated las Casas references as an example — but not economically leftist or close.Wikipedia says: She has said, "History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence".I’m still not sure what argument she was trying to make in the whole book. I eventually grew tired of trying to figure it out.I did learn tidbits and things, and learn enough about Lepore's writing, not to one-star it. Plus, I thought a two-star review would be less easily dismissed. That is, until Amazon being Amazon refused to accept the initial review because it had URLs in the body of the review.So, Amazon, one-starred it here because of THAT!
Lepore states, "The universe was created about fourteen billion years ago, according to the traces left behind by meteors and the afterlives of stars, glowing and distant, blinking and dim." The age of the universe has nothing to do with meteors and the afterlives of stars. Its age is inferred from: the expansion of the universe discovered by Lemaitre and later extrapolated back to the origin, consisting of a single quantum; the 3 K background glow, the residual of the big bang; and the relative abundance of the elements. I fear that Lepore, in attempting to encompass the entire United States history in a single book, may have devoted to it insufficient time to get the facts right.
Jill Lepore has gifted us with a superbly told history of the United States. Filled with exciting tales and a lyrically told history, it's an important read that's also an absolute joy to delve into. Don't let the page count deter you, from the first page, Lepore will grab your attention—hold tight, because she doesn't let go. This is how American history was meant to be shared and it's an important book for the age we find ourselves in, especially as we become frustrated with the present and begin to think it can't get any worse. Enjoy!
I think it is a shame that Americans in general seem to know so little about their own history, probably because they were bored to death in their history classes, with terrible textbooks. It is extremely important these days for us to know as much about this subject as possible, and Lepore's telling of it is gripping.I have gotten as far as the beginning of the Revolution so far, and I am impressed, not only with her vivid style, but also with her emphasis on the role of the slaves in this period of history. In her account, they are not just sufferers of oppression but active in their struggle for liberation, preceding for many years the desire of the white colonists (a third of them, anyway) for freedom. (In fact, as she points out, many opponents of the movement toward revolution were afraid that the British promise of emancipation if they won would in fact take place.)All in all, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to brush up on their history.
This is a book I wanted to like, but I come away from reading it with decidedly mixed feelings.I was looking for a refresher overview of American history and, while some might take exception to the events included or omitted, it is that. It is also full of interesting side notes about particular events. It is thoroughly footnoted.Its weakness lies in the author’s subjective glosses. Sometimes they are inspiring and soaring. At other times they are just dubious spins. And some points, some of which were obvious to begin with (such as the dissonance between the Declaration of Independence’s soaring declaration “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness†and the slavery of the time) are made over and over and over and over again and not always in a relevant context. Even though the point may be exceedingly valid, that can get tiresome.In short I found the book to be a very mixed bag and can’t really recommend it.
I lose a bit of confidence in a work of history when an event stated as fact is wrong even though it may be of minor interest in a history of the US. On page 32 is this: "James was born in 1566; the next year, when his mother died, he became king of Scotland". His mother, Mary Queen of Scots, did not die in 1567. Mary was executed by Elizabeth I in 1587.
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