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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Collection of Lepore‘s New Yorker essays. Unsurprisingly, they were all really well written. I‘m amazed at her mastery of so many different topics related to law, politics, and history. My favorites were the couple of more personal essays at the beginning of. The only downside is that since the topics covered are so broad, they can wander into territory the reader (listener) may not have picked (e.g., waterboarding). Overall great.

These essays are very well written and sure to raise your blood pressure.

This book is a collection of Lepore‘s essays from the last 10 years, mostly previously published in The New Yorker (so, with a liberal lean, which works just fine for me). I thought it was terrific. My only regret is that I would have liked to linger over it a bit, but the library due date pushed me to get through it faster.

Just two old friends geeking out about hearing Jill Lepore speak today. Unsurprisingly, she is as eloquent and entertaining a speaker as she is a writer. Knowledgeable, curious, and more than a little funny, she spoke about constitutional amendments and it was fascinating. If you have an opportunity to hear her speak, I highly recommend doing so.

Adding some nonfiction into the mix because one of my favorite historians has a new book out this week. Lepore is a prolific writer who writes about whatever interests her from the history of Wonder Woman & the man who created her to a biography, more or less, of Benjamin Franklin‘s sister. This book collects essays previously published in The New Yorker plus three never before published ones. I‘ll take my time with this one, maybe an essay a day.