02092cam a2200361 i 4500 884830543 TxAuBib 20230914120000.0 230129s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781631496127 HRD 45.00 1631496123 HRD 45.00 (OCoLC)1362866174 TxAuBib rda Lepore, Jill, 1966-, author. The deadline [BOOK] : essays / Jill Lepore. First edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] ©2023. xxii, 617 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Prodigal daughter -- Misjudged -- Valley of the dolls -- Just the facts, Ma'am -- Battleground America -- The disruption machine -- The rule of history -- The parent trap -- The isolation ward -- In every dark hour. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Jill 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 essays collected in The Deadline 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 deadline, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” -Provided by publisher. 20230914. Twenty-first century. United States History 21st century. Essays.