Story of America

From Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin storiesfrom John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural addressto show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Am...