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✺ Recap2020: In addition to recapping the 2020 Descendants Newsletters, this listed some of the "hit" newsletters, and the presence of TC in a very conservative city (Buffalo) during the McCarthy Era as a 'darling' of the John Birch Society

The style of TC as a writer: Novels, almost never essays.
Comparison with two other famous authors: Ayn Rand and Joyce Carol Oates. TC, unlike these, rarely appeared in public forums.
An introduction to TC's public versus personal relation to family.

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✺ 02-04-21TCRevealers: 13 Open Road Promotions, heavy on TC's novels I called Diatribes on Evil and the coincidental(?) media commentaries on QAnon and former President Trump's conspiracy "theories."

That this list reveals an abrupt change in TC's novelistic emphases, toward the end of the '50s.
A comparison – in these newsletters – of my own choices of TC novels with this list.

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✺ 02-10-21TenderVictory: Review of Tender Victory by Patricia Nolan Stein, one of this newsletter's readers.

Some context on TC's years (1900-1980, when she became completely incapacitated) as straddling two World Wars and a recognition of the harm wrought by legacy industrialists.
The place of Tender Victory and Time No Longer in establishing that TC's take on who were the good people of the world had nuance, at times.

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✺ 02-13-21LetLoveComeLast: Reader reviews from the internet of Let Love Come last and the changes in America from the '50s.

Toward what members of families do TC's sympathy lie in her novels?
The Allan Bakke story: An example difficulty in comparing standards from one decade to another.

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✺ 03-01-21AnotherBigORday: A second long Open Road list of TC novels: between the two recent list, 24 total novels, with this list from the tetralogies that brought her greatest acclaim.

That TC's Hobbesian approach to the world – Life is tough, get over it a– and the attention she received for it, gave her a vehement new direction.
Further explanation of the Allan Bakke case and its relation to TC's bette noire: the concept of progress.

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✺ 03-06-21FamilyWebSiteIntro: Introduction to the new functions on the TC-Descendants' web site by my brother, Robin.

An exercise in using "The Novels → Best Sellers" tabs on the site.
One story on TC's reception among critical reviewers.
A complication in tying TC to the McCarthy era and JBS. An equal complication on comparing her conservative views then with those of conservatives today.

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✺ 04-02-21TCConservThemes: The New Testament versions and a comparison of how they and TC saw Jesus.

Mark says Jesus knew such intentional opposition to Empire would lead to his execution, but he has no resurrection.
Mark has Jesus saying: He goes ahead of you and the activity of the Empire of God continues. The message is that simple.
How TC puts Jesus's aura in her novels, but never his mission.
What TC brings to today's conservative dialog:
1. It was a Republic, not a Democracy, that Solon gave us, and it was a Republic that we should have.
2. The world of man, the meaningful Universe, will always be as it is.
3. Witless action in this world comes about from feckless liberals, who deserve her portrayals.

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