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Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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I am Joan Peterson and I live on a small lake in Northern Minnesota near Duluth I am a news junkie, advocate for gun safety reform, women's reproductive rights, social justice and democracy. I'm the mother of a son and daughter and grandma to 4.

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