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The Deadline: Essays

By (author) Jill Lepore

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Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americansâ€™ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedentedâ€”but armedâ€”aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Leporeâ€™s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the â€œriver of time that divides the quick from the dead.â€ Echoing Gore Vidalâ€™s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essayâ€”and of historyâ€”itself.

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