{"product_id":"9781324095613","title":"The Deadline: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America's best historians; it's fair to say she's one of its best writers too.\" -Jonathan Russell Clark, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest Books of 2023: \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, TIME\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book to be read and kept for posterity, \u003cem\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/em\u003e is the art of the essay at its best.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003edeadline\u003c\/em\u003e, the \"river of time that divides the quick from the dead.\" Echoing Gore Vidal's \u003cem\u003eUnited States\u003c\/em\u003e in its massive intellectual erudition, \u003cem\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/em\u003e, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay-and of history-itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370819915837,"sku":"9781324095613","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324095613_p0.jpg?v=1771569153","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781324095613","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}