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14 Jun 2017 Conversations with Tyler Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time
“A book I’ve really loved reading, which is published in, I think, 1954 — so it misses the last half century and more — is called Out of Our Past, and it’s a history of the United States.”
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- Jill Lepore
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- 14 Jun 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…OK. Let’s say you know someone from China. They’re highly intelligent, quite literate, but they don’t know much about the history of the United States. And they ask you to recommend to them a book to read — but not your own — and a visual artist to look at or study to get a better understanding for their first trip. They’re going to come here and drive across country. Where would you direct them? A book I’ve really loved reading, which is published in, I think, 1954 — so it misses the last half century and more — is called Out of Our Past, and it’s a history of the United States. Really one of the last attempts to synthesize the entire story, and it’s a short book. It’s funny. I just ordered this book on Amazon yesterday. Someone wrote me and said, “You need to read Out of Our Past,” and I haven’t, so I just bought it. But why is that interesting?…
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