Stacy Schiff

Aug 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Stacy Schiff

If you're feeling wrung out from the last dizzying weeks of political news, just imagine how the word "unprecedented" must be faring, dragged from its recliner for daily - sometimes hourly - workouts. It needn't have been. To understand how we got here, it's helpful to return to another sweltering summer, a summer when everything actually was without precedent. The 55 men who assembled in Philadelphia 237 years ago to hammer out an American Constitution differed on a great many things.

Apr 25, 2024 | csfd.cz | Stacy Schiff

Apr 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Stacy Schiff

Even before they declared their independence, it was clear to the American colonies that in their struggle against Great Britain they would need a wealthy benefactor. The colonies were desperately short of men, money and materiel. There was little by way of an American Navy, and barely an engineer on the continent.

Oct 12, 2023 | nybooks.com | Stacy Schiff

Early on a wet spring morning in 1952, Arthur Miller maneuvered his green Studebaker into Elia Kazan’s Connecticut driveway. The ignition off, he sat for a few minutes quietly, battling a sense of dread. Kazan had phoned several times to arrange the meeting. He and Miller were neighbors in the country and best friends; they shared upbringings, tastes, and convictions. In five years they seemed together to have reconfigured the American theatrical landscape.

Jul 21, 2023 | wsj.com | Stacy Schiff

By Stacy Schiff July 21, 2023 12:28 pm ETFew women have come into their looks as late as did Cleopatra VII, the first-century B.C. queen of Egypt. In accounts of the ancients she is no stunner. Only several hundred years after her death did she finally qualify as striking.