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These truths by jill lepore5/22/2023 Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal and always said, you need to be able to see at the same time things that are up close and things that are far away.Īnd this book, I aimed to kind of have a binocular vision, right, that we could track the kind of well-thumbed political history, we can march from president to president and see presidential administrations and evaluate them, but that we really also need to reckon with the incredible work that's been done in the academy the last half-century recovering, investing in the lives of everyone else, of women, of people of color, and that those are also political stories.Īnd they're also origin stories, and that you can't understand the presidency or politics with a capital P without bringing these two strands together. The trick, though, was to try to see both of those. And everything always has a kind of doubleness to it.
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