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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
Best Books of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads
A New York Times New and Notable Title
"Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity." --Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget
Brief description: Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: Who's going to determine the future: the tech billionaires or the rest of us? Jill Lepore argues that there's nothing inevitable about eliminating jobs, destroying ecosystems, and arming authoritarian regimes. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State is at once dazzling in its range and totally on target.--Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Under a White Sky