| Description |
xxii, 617 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part One. Prodigal daughter. Prodigal daughter -- The deadline -- Easy rider -- The everyman library -- Part Two. Misjudged. It's still alive -- Ahab at home -- The fireman -- The shorebird -- Misjudged -- Part Three. Valley of the dolls. The odyssey -- The ice man -- Valley of the dolls -- The man in the box -- No, we cannot -- Buzz -- Part Four. Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts, ma'am -- Bad News -- After the fact -- Hard news -- Part Five. Battleground America. Battleground America -- Blood on the green -- The long blue line -- The riot report -- Part Six. The disruption machine -- The cobweb -- The disruption machine -- The robot caravan -- Mission impossible -- Part Seven. The rule of history. The rule of history -- The age of consent -- Benched -- The dark ages -- Drafted -- Part Eight. The parent trap. Back to the blackboard -- To have and to hold -- The return of the pervert -- The parent trap -- Part Nine. The isolation ward. Plague years -- These four walls -- The isolation ward -- Burned -- Part Ten. In every dark hour. Politics and the new machine -- The war and the roses -- You're fired -- The Trump papers -- In every dark hour -- The American beast. |
| Summary |
"Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans' techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented--but armed--aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore's life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the "river of time that divides the quick from the dead." Echoing Gore Vidal's United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay--and of history--itself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Twenty-first century.
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United States -- History -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781631496127 hc. |
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