Investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print.
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"Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity."—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget
To be published on the 250th anniversary year of the American Revolution, We the People is the most original history of the US Constitution in over a century.