Letters to the Editors…
I Really Did Try!
Linda B. Gefen presents a riveting, year-by-year account of America’s most tumultuous political decade through the lens of a citizen who refused to stay silent. Written between 2016 and 2025, Gefen’s collection of more than six hundred letters documents her emotional, intellectual, and moral struggle to understand—and confront—the rise of Donald J. Trump, the MAGA movement, and what she views as an existential threat to American democracy.
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Linda B. Gefen is a wife, mother, grandmother, entrepreneur, and writer. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education from Hofstra University. Thirty-one years of owning a retail business brought out her creative side, and social interactions have given her a heightened sense of the community’s political pulse. Her first Letter to the Editor was …
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From the moment Donald J. Trump glided down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in June of 2015, Linda B. Gefen started to share her observations on the hypocrisy and horror of his presidential race against Hillary Clinton in letters to the editors of major newspapers. Many were published as Opinions and Letters to the …
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Letters to the Editors…I Really Did Try! and The Diary of Anne Frank are committed to a common cause. A journal of life happenings in a political and very personal sense. Also available at: ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781665776202ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781665776233ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665776219
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