In her work "These Truths", award-winning historian Jill Lepore tells the story of the USA from its beginnings to today's world power.
Wednesday, 23. October 2019, 19:00 – 20:00 h
At Literaturhaus Zurich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Pfauen, Rämistrasse 34
The award-winning historian Jill Lepore narrates the history of the USA from its beginnings to today’s superpower in her book ‘These Truths’. We talk to the author about her portrait of a nation and her plea for liberal America.
Jill Lepore, born in 1966, is a professor of American history at Harvard University as well as a staff writer at ‘The New Yorker’ magazine. She has received more than half a dozen prizes for her books, and was a finalist for the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize. Her magnum opus ‘These Truths’ could be found on American bestseller lists for weeks.