Many of my trusted advisers in all things political have been raving about this woman’s work — writing and speaking daily about the Trump phenomenon in America — for some time.

My inbox receives a Substack post every weekday from Heather Cox Richardson. Recently, I heard one of her calm, thorough and convincing presentations, when a son sent me a YouTube of her hour-long talk on Feb. 24, her own “state of the union” address, that mercifully took me away from watching the Mad King uttering his lies on broadcast TV.

The author of seven books on such topics as the American Civil War and the history of the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, she demonstrates the scale, scope, and volume of her writing output. It is prodigious. As the scribbler of a mere 650 words a week, I can only gasp in admiration.

It was, as she noted that day, both the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a day during the year of the 250th anniversary of the American........

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