{"product_id":"the-deadline-essays-9781324095613","title":"The Deadline: Essays","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324095613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640","brand":"Jill Lepore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493254852789,"sku":"9781324095613","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cdb624a1-5f77-45c9-8e36-77a5346be065.jpg?v=1721747736","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-deadline-essays-9781324095613","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}