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History for a Post-Fact America | by Alex Carp | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books Graham Dunne, David Hammons, Billy Dunne, American Flag Quilt, Joe Louis, Patriotic Art, Flag Quilt, Medieval World, Star Spangled Banner

Jill Lepore's new history of America comes at a time when many readers will have a nagging sense of living through a historical moment themselves, whatever that means (the details somehow “organic to the period” yet still lost to us). It also arrives as the raw materials of history seem to be losing their hold. “The era of the fact,” Lepore wrote in The New Yorker two years ago, “is coming to an end.”

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