The book also foregrounds the country's histories of slavery and systemic racism, demonstrating how these injustices have distorted and undermined America's commitment to its founding truths. The idea of truth itself is a core theme of the book: Lepore traces how a number of technological and political forces-including newspapers, mass media, propaganda, polling, and political consulting-have fundamentally altered the way that Americans define and understand what is true, ultimately eroding a shared understanding of empirical truth. These Truths sets out to examine the extent to which the United States has lived up to its ideals. The book's title references the statement in the Declaration of Independence "we hold these truths to be self-evident," which introduces three political ideas that Lepore identifies as the founding pillars of the American experiment: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people.
It traces American politics, law, journalism, and technology from the Age of Discovery through the present day, focusing on America's founding truths and their role in uniting, dividing, and transforming the nation. These Truths: A History of the United States is a one-volume book of American history written by award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore.
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