Joan Mansfield met Ray Kroc while playing the organ in a swanky St. Paul restaurant. Their relationship turned her into one of America's most influential philanthropists.
"I think in America, our expectations of what happiness should look like are very, very high," says Ruth Whippman, author of "America the Anxious." "Some might even say unrealistic."
Jane Austen was a fierce talent, but she wasn't alone in her era. "You couldn't swing a petticoat without knocking over authoresses young and old," Shelley DeWees writes in a new book.
Political Junkie Ken Rudin shared his concerns with MPR News host Kerri Miller about President-elect Donald Trump's inability to separate his business affairs with his presidential duties.