“I just think it’s silly to deny that that existed, that it didn’t harm a lot of people, that it wasn’t wildly out of control on many occasions.”
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
As America prepares for the 250th anniversary of its declaration of independence from Britain, there is a pitched battle over what the American story is, and who gets to tell it. Jill Lepore is at the center of that debate. For the past decade, the Harvard professor and
