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Finding Solace in Presidential Biographies
Alexis Coe, writer and historian and author of Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (Pulp/Zest Books, 2014) with a forthcoming George Washington biography, and a host of the podcast "Presidents Are People Too!", talks about her latest piece in the New York Times Magazine on presidential biographies.