The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateMuch in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . . the Artificial State, writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendts The Origins of Totalitarianism, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence, Lepore, profoundly disturbed by the technology

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other legal complications involving his landholdings and the settlement of estates he had inherited long before

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for which principle Jefferson's political foes would vilify him to the end of his life

and neither cared much for the British tyrant

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Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson’s awkward visit to pay his respects subsequently

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little did she know that she had discovered a story of historical magnitude that would alter our understanding of British and American history

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