“We’ve had moments in our history that have been really, really dark, and it gives us perspective that maybe it’s not as bad as we think it is,” Baier told WTTW News while promoting his work.
“I don’t think we truly appreciate the country almost never came to be,” he said. “Without Washington, we wouldn’t have a country, I’m convinced of that.”
Tapper, for his part, revealed what led him to write All the Demons in an interview with NPR’s Scott Simon. “It was just a wild time. I mean, the truth of the matter is, this is my third novel, and the first one takes place in the ’50s, the second in the ’60s. I was going to skip the ’70s ’cause I remember them vaguely,” he shared.