Ryan Cole has written extensively about American history and literature for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the New Criterion, Civil War Times, the American Interest, and the Indianapolis Star. He served on the staff of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, as a speechwriter at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and as an assistant to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
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