Susannah Jacob is a writer and PhD student in history at Yale. She was born and raised in Texas, and worked as a speechwriter to Barack Obama in the White House. Write to her
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The New York Review of Books:
What Happened to the West Village?
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“We Have to Win Purple States’: An Interview with Michael Bennet
The Atlantic:
What Elizabeth Warren Learned from Frances Perkins
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The Easter Egg Roll and the Bygone Era of White House Openness
CJR:
Covering 2020 from Texas
The Paris Review Daily:
The Man Who Spent Four Decades Interviewing Teen Stars
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Blow Out Your Candles: An Elegy for Rose Williams
Medium:
On writing a speech for Barack Obama about an old house on Capitol Hill
The Washington Post:
Marvin Horne, rogue raisin farmer
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Looking for Lincoln in the National Archives
Texas Monthly:
Wendy Davis' Dad
NewYorker.com:
How I Bless my Palm Beach Suit
The New York Times Magazine:
LIVES: Pancake Chronicles
The New York Times 2011-2014
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