Episode

Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July

Podcast: The Book Review
Published: Jul 3, 2026
Duration seconds: 3134
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Summary

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Jill Lepore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, offers a reading list for the occasion. Then we round up some of the summer’s most anticipated beach reads.