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Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a
post-truth world—but if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did
it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the
case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and
evidence across the last century.
In Who Killed Truth? acclaimed Harvard historian and New Yorker
staff writer Jill Lepore traces the origins of our current
post-truth crisis. In a series of spellbinding stories, Lepore
investigates murders, hoaxes, lies and delusions to reckon with
the instability of truth and fiction in the twenty-first century.
Listeners will follow Lepore through a fascinating, erudite, and
antic journey through the thorny problem of how we know what we
know, and why it seems sometimes as if we don't know anything at
all anymore.
Revisiting key moments in U.S. history—from the Scopes Monkey
Trial in 1925 to the 1977 National Women’s Convention to the
first election predicted by computer, and more—Lepore uncovers
the secrets of the past the way a detective might, hot on the
trail of the killer of truth.
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