MixedThe Christian Science MonitorWhile These Truths details the wealth of those contradictions much more extensively, This America spends most of its time discussing a history of immigration restrictions ... isn’t the groundbreaking work that These Truths was, which Lepore acknowledges. It is unlikely to convince anyone who doesn’t already agree with her, and those who feel betrayed by the nation’s broken promises may wince at her invocation of patriotism. But Lepore, in sharp and earnest prose, provides a timely reminder that while the nation hasn’t achieved its egalitarian promise – and there’s no guarantee it ever will – the values at its core ensure the existence of a mechanism to fight for it.
