Truth Teller #23 Heather Cox Richardson, an American historian and self-described Lincoln-era Republican works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.
Truth Teller #22 Eleanor Roosevelt. The longest-serving First Lady, Roosevelt was a prolific author of six books and countless articles. At the White House for a time spanning The Great Depression and WWII, she was an advocate for racial justice, an opponent of McCarthyism and advisor to her husband Franklin, bringing new gravitas to the role of First Lady.
If Guthrie were writing "Pretty Boy Floyd" today he might have substituted "Big fat sharpie" for "Fountain Pen".
Mathematician and Philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for his opposition to the First World War. Although willing to be jailed for what he believed, he was not dogmatic. He famously remarked “I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.”
Springsteen delivered these These remarks in Manchester, England at the beginning of his 2025 European Tour
Chesterton was an English philosopher, apologist for Christianity, author of the Father Brown mystery novels and literary and art critic. He showed an early talent for visual art, but did not finish art school. That was a good move, as he was to develop into a writer of such stature he was cited as an influence by Argentinian great Jorge Luis Borges. As author of as many as 80 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935.
