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Jill Lepore
American Historian
Born: Aug 27, 1966
American History Life People Time You
Related authors: Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Henry Adams James Truslow Adams Robert Fogel Tara Westover Will Durant
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone. Jill Lepore
Good News Everyone Bad Bad News Public Public Good
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Jill Lepore
Privacy Secrecy Everyone Ourselves Know Known Us Keep
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. Jill Lepore
Nature Character Action President Presidential Scale Out Greater Than Person American Bigger American President Biography
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. Jill Lepore
History Lost Saved Earth Eaten Written Found
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away. Jill Lepore
Home Me Mother Stay Scary Only Liked Read Always Command Get Wanted Found Away Ever Things
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard. Jill Lepore
Cake Damning Piece Them Taxes Hard Defending
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. Jill Lepore
Future Innovation Past Conservatism Other Directions Toward Tradition Tug Different Different Directions Novelty
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Jill Lepore
Made Progressivism Possible
Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest. Jill Lepore
People World Also American Among
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Jill Lepore
Group Deficiencies Fathers Easily Out Parental Consumer Remedy Almost Almost Anything Mothers Very Anything Might Turned Buying
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born. Jill Lepore
Science Research Press Plots Born About Date Journalism Science Fiction Were American Modern Fiction Stories Epidemic
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy. Jill Lepore
Market Market Economy Punished Moral Rise Feature Wrong Idea Economy Trade Debt Forgiven Should Necessary Consequent
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism. Jill Lepore
Good History Ignorance Become Rich Too Our Broke Something Only Part Like Matched Go Optimism Very Get American Forgetting Means Fast Actually
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. Jill Lepore
Life Made Life Is A Group Citizens Adolescence Up Target Senior Senior Citizens Just Stages Interest Moving Plain Useful
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. Jill Lepore
Work College Employees Startups Would College Students Students New Hire Were Years Off Left Graduates Dying Laid Little Might Worked Companies Tech Tech Companies Last
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. Jill Lepore
Age Innovation Strategy Seized Terror Competitive Disruptive
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity. Jill Lepore
Loyalty Dignity Determination Mother Father Married Borne Steadiness He She Him Loved Fierce
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War. Jill Lepore
War History World Progress First Betterment Idea Between First World First World War West Dominated Human The History Of Human History View Notion Enlightenment World View World War
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore
Library Mother Long Before Nine Franklin House Died Oil Jane Canvas Public Aged Granddaughter Public Library Miles Found Basement Dozen Portrait
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Jill Lepore
Prosperity Pay Society Wealthy More Civilized Civilized Society Because Modernity Taxes
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. Jill Lepore
Library Remember Loan Everything Having Had He Put Obsessed Town Pieces Wrote George His Years George Orwell Get Going Requests Radio Ever Orwell Compilation
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad. Jill Lepore
Good Generation Bad Find Only Another Were Debtors Times Forget After Lessen Ever Numbers
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. Jill Lepore
Life Old Young Marketing Crisis Life Crisis More Schemes Mainly Just Stages Really
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. Jill Lepore
God Time History Corruption Grace Fall Past Worse Ruled Favor Supernatural Lay Tend Divine Involve Loss Providence Hand Behind Decline Sparrow Used Theories Special Each Present
No nation has a single history, no people a single song. Jill Lepore
History People Song Single Nation
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid. Jill Lepore
Work Better Will Single Possibility Something More Individual Factory Lead Smaller Piece Likely Well Single Individual Doing Line Office Any Interesting Skill Requires Paid Less Assembly Assembly Line Assigned
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