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Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist. She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such as Jane Franklin, Ben Franklin’s precocious sister, and the Simulmatics Corp., whose pioneering computer algorithms still shape our reality. Her 15th book, “We the People,” a history of the U.S. Constitution, may be her best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water. She’s not here to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic; she’s here to convey — in vigorous, crystal-clear sentences — what we’re losing, and why. Mayday call o

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