Kirsten, I am one of Taylor Caldwell's grandsons, the oldest. There has been a newsletter for two years. I will give you a link to the last collection of newsletters spanning the last two quarters: 2nd/3rd Quarter 2021 TC in a context with other mid-20th Century famous authors Newsletter readers respond to TC and Contemporary Thought A deeper look at TC's upfront religious viewpoint 4 Newsletters on TC's most significant novel: Dear and Glorious Physician https://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/tcblog/messlist-tc21/tc2nd-3rdQT2021.html

It has not yet been published. It was a very rough manuscript, put together with a typewriter that would have been old in the 1970's. A continuous un-chaptered affair, that I have divided into chapters and to it added abstracts and html helper files. A few people have read chapters of it, and it is likely time I consider what a publisher might think of it with a further modification of a few chapters. My contention is that Peggy was the only one, at least until near TC's death, to whom TC confided and had significant interaction with her over a considerable period. Thank you for asking.

Robert, the Carroll Quigley interview on "Tragedy and Hope" seems intriguing. For example, that the plates were inadvertently destroyed. Yet, despite the statement that the original tape has been fixed, it is still extremely difficult to hear. What would be wonderful would be a transcript of it, that selected – at least – the key elements.

Robert, maybe I have to rethink my surmise. I don't see the assassination of Cicero as similar to JFK's, but her dedication to JFK in Pillar of Iron is of consequence. That was a surmise on my part, and perhaps, one that represents an exception to what I would have imagined were her positions.

Michael, In my response to the review of Kirkus on "Testimony of Two Men" I suggest the backdrop of the Kennedy era. No question that she was attuned to how the moneyed and power hungry were avaricious for political control. "Captains and the Kings" came out as a television miniserial even before "Rich man, Poor Man" (based on Irwin Shaw's novel) and also "Roots" (which surely was of a different nature). Your observation that the serialized "Captains ..." was a sanitized version of the actual novel by Caldwell was very valuable. Her predilection to chronicle the families that blossomed into great power started with "Dynasty of Death" and her follow ups to that. You have also suggested some of the sources for her understanding of what were those earlier mechanisms for securing power. I hadn't thought to clarify that theme in her work. Since her sagas go back to the 1800s, it would make an interesting contribution to Jane Mayer's "Dark Money." Following that to a fit conclusion would add some insight into her own disparagement of the hopes for progress.