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Jill Lepore: Politicians Can Dupe Voters but not Posterity

SOOTHSAYER AND TRUTH TELLER

The noted historian talks about her new single-volume US history and about the role of the historian, who is, she says, not a critic or moralist but a sleuth and a storyteller.

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