This article appears in the January 2026 print edition with the headline “How Terror Works.” ...

In 'Family of Spies,' author Christine Kuehn confronts a past that is stranger and more sinister than fiction.

Born on March 23, 1874, in Montabaur, Germany, Joseph Christian Leyendecker immigrated to Chicago with his family at the age of eight. He began his artistic training through apprenticeships and ...