Top 77 Quotes by Jill Lepore

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.