Two Hundred Candles

America turning 200 in 1976 was not a normal birthday party. It was a year-long, red-white-and-blue fever dream that somehow doubled as a group therapy session, and we get into why that matters now that the 250th anniversary is here. Along the way, we start exactly where real life starts: surviving a brutal heat wave, watching fireworks from the kitchen window, and taking in a tiny four-week-old kitten who shows up sick, starving, and instantly becomes family. We also hit the fun and m...