Jill Lepore's latest collection of essays, 'The Deadline,' dives deep into history, from Barbie to MAGA, to tell us about our present and warn of our future.
joke: Drone strikes bring Guantanamo to you. “This all happened not very long ago,” Lepore writes, “but it can seem like something from another age.”about studying the past to avoid repeating it — and the Trump era has only reinforced it. Lepore has ways of crystallizing that truth in both specific examples and fresh aphorisms. “Every dystopia is a history of the future,” she observes.
The final six essays, which chronologically trace the ascendance of Trump and his MAGA-ites, leave the reader with a bleak picture of our political landscape, and the last essay, on the, left a chill. Trump’s election claim, Lepore writes, “is not a Big Lie devised by an orange-haired supervillain born rich in 1946: it is the latest chapter in a fictive counter-history of the United States that has been told by the far right for decades and decades and wretched decades.
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