Kyle Harrison
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Off With Her Head

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
Author
Eleanor Herman
Published
2022
Pages
384
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Herman runs the same attack lines — she’s ugly, she’s a witch, she’s a whore, she’s too old — from Cleopatra and Anne Boleyn through to modern candidates, and shows how little the script has changed.

Where I saw it: Recommended in a BookTok video by Carrie (@carriereadsbooks) that Kyle saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read” — his own note on the list: books to prepare for a Trump presidency. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@carriereadsbooks/video/7434519243615472927

Connections

  • Democracy — the arena the script now runs in.