When the Fairytale Breaks
How Two Playlists Capture the Magic, the Myth, and the Melancholy of Disney’s America
Author’s Note: Bookish usually lands today, tracing Gordon S. Wood’s epic through the early American republic—a nation drunk on liberty, commerce, and its own contradictions. The next entry is a challenging one: a portrait of a young country shedding its old hierarchies only to give birth to new ones, loud and brutal, irreverent and raw.
Lately, history …
