![]() ![]() ![]() With "The Witches," however, she ventures into her first history without a clear protagonist. ![]() Vera Nabokov)," Schiff has tackled an impressive range of subjects: Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and, most recently, Cleopatra. Since winning a Pulitzer Prize for her 2000 biography "Vera (Mrs. Yet Schiff makes a strong case for the Salem trials as foundational, a "national nightmare" in which superstitious dogma and contentious colonial politics came together to turn a xenophobic community against itself. For those modern-day Puritans in search of original sin, American history presents no shortage of candidates - the transcontinental slave trade and Native American genocide have far higher body counts. ![]()
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