The deadline essays

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 wr...

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Main Author: Lepore, Jill, 1966- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of 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 oddyssey ; 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 6. The disrupton machine. The cobweb ; The distruption 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.