notes

Witkoff took his own notes, relying on a Kremlin translator, then briefed the White House from the U.S.

Ms. McGarr, who teaches at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is often acerbic about her subjects but notes that they were “awash in patriotic fervor at the same time that they were distrustful and cynical.”

Following her first conversation with another teenager, she concludes her notes with one word: “lying.”

In England, notes Mr. Harpham, as early as the 1550s one might discern “a popular consensus” that “the people of the nation stood in some special relation to freedom.”

One landmark example the author notes is the first “fat-in”—a mix of protest and satire—which was staged in 1967 by a New York radio DJ.