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David S. Brown

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The Groundbreaking Political Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics.

by David S. Brown via Literary Hub on December 16, 2025

Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution

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Henry Adams and his wife, Clover Adams at Wenlock Abbey, England, 1873

A Posthumous Life

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on April 8, 2021

painting of Henry Adams

What Henry Adams Understood About History’s Breaking Points

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.

by Dan Chiasson via The New Yorker on November 30, 2020

Borne Back Into the Past

Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'

by Mike St. Thomas via Commonweal on January 4, 2018

Collage of faces and red, white, and blue themes.

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on October 6, 2020

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