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Will the country ever shed its Puritan origins?

Chicago is still the most theatrically corrupt city, Abbott says.

What motivated the social and political reformers in early 20th-century Chicago?

Abbott’s book started with a lost great-great aunt, and ended with an exploration of the Everleigh sisters and the politics of sex in turn-of-the-century Chicago.

Abbott was always drawn to people’s darker impulses.

A Catholic school graduate writing about strippers and prostitutes. The nuns, Abbott says, would be proud.

Voters should focus on the issues, Fuller says.

Readers don’t turn to “Star” for political coverage, Fuller says

Law school was too boring.

Bonnie Fuller on surviving in a hostile work environment.

Cut yourself some slack, Fuller says.

Nothing but praise.

“Star,” Fuller says, gives readers a more complete picture than a blog.

Celebrities come in all different shapes and sizes.

Will gossip become more international?

Fuller does not condone long-range pictures.

The relationship is completely symbiotic, Fuller says.

Gossip is a social glue, Fuller says.

Fuller talks about turning “Star” Magazine around.

Two generations does not a dynasty make.

Adams was willing to suffer anything for a truly revolutionary ideal, McCullough says.

We are raising a generation of historically illiterate Americans, McCullough says.

McCullough knew he was in good hands with Tom Hanks.

As their letters reveal, John and Abigail Adams were too immensely vital, energetic and affectionate people.

We can’t expect the system to work if we are ignorant, McCullough says.

If John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton came back today, they would be amazed that the system of government that they created is still in place.

Few of us understand the suffering that went into the Revolution.

New York made things happen.

The Mayor of Newark has only one enemy.

Booker worries about anything that will threaten the legitimacy of the process within the Democratic Party.