Wallace Stegner

July 2024
1min read


Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angel of Repose

Most overrated:

Ronald Reagan, but not by me.

Most underrated:

Woodrow Wilson, maybe? He did his best to apply intelligence and a sense of history to politics and found that the system couldn’t accommodate them.

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