FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Rachel Feder and Tiffany Tatreau’s Taylor Swift by the Book

1989 It’s the height of the Roaring 20 . . . 10s. Short dresses shimmy and shine under the blindingly bright New York City lights, and our heroine sees through it all. If you follow her down the rabbit hole, you might discover an underground speak- easy where you won’t be found. Or maybe you’ll

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening

At a time when the very foundations of American democracy seem under threat, the lessons of the past offer a road map for navigating a moment of political crisis. In Democracy Awakening, acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the tumultuous journey of American democracy, tracing the roots of Donald Trump’s “authoritarian experiment” to the earliest

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from H. W. Brands’ Founding Partisans

From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.   Part I The Making of a Continentalist 1 Alexander Hamilton hadn’t intended to father a party and then subvert it; his first goal in politics had been to

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