{"product_id":"9781631496127","title":"The Deadline","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e • 10 Best Books of August 2023\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA book to be read and kept for posterity, \u003ci\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/i\u003e is the art of the essay at its best.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003edeadline\u003c\/i\u003e, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” Echoing Gore Vidal’s \u003ci\u003eUnited States\u003c\/i\u003e in its massive intellectual erudition, \u003ci\u003eThe Deadline\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Jill Lepore","offers":[{"title":"WW Norton |  Hardback  |  2023-08-29","offer_id":44227645505791,"sku":"9781631496127","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe3d28e5-e606-4541-b89f-5877bd66e256.jpg?v=1692920737","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781631496127","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}