• Captains and the Kings: In recent times her biggest seller, probably because it was essentially the first television series.
• Two covers for Wicked Angel: A reference to Rod Serling and TCs approach to evil and the environment.
• Raising the subject of where TC would stand on the likes of the MIT trained Koch brothers and their war on science.

✺ 04-29-21SoundofThunder: Vol 1 of TC's collected works, the period of her greatest success

• A mid-career demarcation: TCs time of greatest success marked by Never Victorious: Never Defeated (1954).
• Peggy's autobiography on that same period: Also a midpoint, Chapter 8: Travel in a Tiny World; Peggy has the privilege of accompanying TC on her many-month voyages on the Rotterdam.
• The Sound of Thunder: Like many of TCs novels, insistence on the inherent wickedness of many children.

✺ 04-29-21TCCollVol1: TC in a context with other mid-20th Century famous authors

• A link to the stable of TC books available at Open Road.
• How to get periodic notices of Open Road books with special offerings.
• A link to the Taylor Caldwell Appreciation Society featuring a picture of my sister with TC many years ago.

✺ 05-09-21QT1Review-IJudas: A review of newsletters from the 1st Quarter 2021

• Three large clumps of OR promotions of TC with natural divisions between them.
• The TC-Descendants' upgraded web site, with an exercise in using it.
• TC's conservatism vs today's. Her take on Jesus vs that of the New Testament's.

✺ 05-20-21WickedAngel: Six topics for which TC became noted for her outspoken conservatism

• The topics: A Republic, not a Democracy; evil people supported by the rabble; no such thing as lasting progress; her righteous belief in catholicism; the most pernicious organization, the IRS; coddling children will destroy society.
• Words from a contemporary conservative and a contemporary liberal:
  • Ross Douthat: What is it that Conservatism should be conserving?
  • Ezra Klein: Can conservatism justify aiming at minority government?
• A newsletter reader's take on Wicked Angel.

✺ 05-31-21TCContemporaryExtended: Newsletter readers respond to TC and Contemporary Thought

• Some elaboration on four of TC's conservative themes, and their relation to Jesus and the John Birch Society.
• The period between her publication of The Devil's Advocate advocate (her attunement to the McCarthy Era) and Great Lion of God (St. Paul: long after publication of her greatest novelistic success Dear and Glorious Physician).
• Two newsletter readers, apparently affiliated with the JBS think I have exaggerated her place in the JBS pantheon; I show them the evidence I have not.
• Another newsletter reader points out an internet review of Great Lion of God that included expressions about the depth of TC's conservatism and her contributions to the JBS's magazine American Opinion, and also the relation of On Growing up Tough to it.
• The newsletter reader continues on the unlikely conspiracy theories of some TC supporters that TC's novels are being yanked from libraries.
• The home invasion of TC's home, the relation of Peggy's autobiography (especially Chapters 7 and 8), and how little Peggy knew of TCs novels or her own children or how to properly picture Marcus Reback, TCs husband.
• A word from Joyce Carol Oates to me personally about the value of attending to the life of TC.

✺ 08-01-21TCsReligion: Start of a deeper look at TC's upfront religious viewpoint

• Two parts of her approach:
  • Jesus's aura and his right to our worship.
  • The New Testament and her reader's response and experience with it.
• Twelve upcoming promotions by OR and the start of discussing natural groupings of TCs 40+ novels.
• The significance of the phrase Time No Longer used as a TC title.
• Jesus as a wisdom teachers from Sermon the mount and his admonition to enter by the narrow gate as he did on Easter.
• Versus Jesus as the avenger from Revelations, the last section of the New Testament, unlike his entrance into Jerusalem at Passover.

✺ 08-02-21YourSinsandMineRedux: TC as a Catholic writer and insights of other Catholic writers

• Your Sins and Mine, from the Senator Joseph McCarthy-Roy Cohn era, and comparison with Science Fiction from that time.
• Evidence Peggy hadn't read much of TC's works, but both she and TC were big on Murder mysteries.

✺ 08-08-21TCforRestofAugust:A diatribe on evil

• My sister did both the cover and the reading of Your Sins and Mine.
• Why TC's novels couldn't be called science fiction.
• Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory: Hardly known to anyone you know, but lasers and GPS are known to everyone you know.
• Peggy lived through the recipe for abuse that TC brought from her Scotch upbringing to On Growing Up Tough

✺ 08-30-21DearandGlorious: Start of the most significant novel in TC's career: Dear and Glorious Physician on St. Luke

• The list of topics that unfold from it: her talents unfolded and her falling in a quartet of mid-century literary giants; her effect on her two children; the division of her 40+ novels into sets; Peggy's autobiography, Enough Light to See the Darkness; TC and the JBS; TC's public persona; she never outgrew her poor Scotch family; she hated liberals; her thundering conservative positions.
• TC's Case against those who claim to Understand; and how she came to believe only she could understand.
• Her approach to History, and the nature of her reader-dom.

✺ 09-10-21TCsMostSignificantNovel-Part1: TC's Most significant Novel, DAG, Part I

• Two decades of American response to 9/11, whereby all we could claim was that the 9/11 destruction wouldn't change us, despite all the evidence it changed everything.
• Four aspects of DAG:
  1. She could finally write what she really wanted to.
  2. Her quasi-Historical method, and some concerning aspects of it.
  3. What still resonates with America today.
  4. Her take on mothers, and motherhood, and her paragon, the mother of Jesus.
• A frank discussion of the TC-Descendants' family's biggest mistake in the face of Dear and Glorious Physician (1959) had 112 editions published between 1959 and 2012 –in 11 languages and some perspective on that. Peggy and TC's keeper as they appear in a People Magazine article from 1980.
• Items #1 and #2, as encapsulated by how Luke had long possessed TC as the vehicle for her vision of Mankind.
• TC presents herself as an oracle, and many must have believed that.
• Her Calvinistic tendencies as epitomized by an Epictetus quote.
• Two reviews that stood out among many, that perfectly displayed the bifurcation of reader opinion on her method.

✺ 09-15-21TCsMostSignificantNovel-Part2: TC's Most significant Novel, DAG, Part II

• By the late '50s, TC's success allows her to make her own choices, by reviving an idea of the 140CE heretic Marcion.
• Analysis of the 1st reviewer I quoted in Part I revealed much about item #2, TC's quasi-Historical method.
• Unlikely that the readers of those – approximately – 5 million volumes sold of this novel would have been OK with it being a fun/variant retelling of the new testament background? Maybe they wanted, after 2000 years, more of the drama in the Christ story?
• Her vision of why Rome needed to fall wasn't akin to that of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• Dialogs from her characters on the Meaning of Life, including with the Emporer Tiberius.
• Tiberius challenges Luke as to what purpose was alleviating the pain and suffering of others, while mentally running through TC's list of deplorables: the rabble, senators, slaves.
• The coup-de-gras: TC leads us to the final set-piece of her most significant novel.

✺ 10-09-21TCsMostSignificantNovel-Part3: TC's Most significant Novel, DAG, Part III.

• A 3-part prelude consisting of a story from my own life, that will play a role in the last of the following three topics.
  1. TC's engagement with the Meaning of Life:
  2. With whom in history she wanted to Affiliate:
  3. The seldom discussed distinction between the Wealthy and the Elites:
• TC's most dramatic scene, her imagining of the conversation between Luke and Mary.
• A decade+ after this dramatic success and how she dealt with choices other authors have had.