Brenda Wineapple
Auteur van White Heat
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Brenda Wineapple is the prizewinning author of several books, including White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
Fotografie: 2003 Joyce Ravid
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- Wineapple, Brenda
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- 1949-02-05
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- female
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- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
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- Professor (Columbia University, New York)
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- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
- Korte biografie
- Brenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist who has written several books on nineteenth-century American writers. [from Wikipedia]
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group read: White Heat, Dickinson/Higginson Friendship in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (juli 2011)
Group Read: [White Heat], Dickinson/Higginson Friendship in Book talk (juni 2011)
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the… door Brenda Wineapple
The Impeachers is a fascinating look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The similarities to Trump are uncanny. The phenomenal research is mind boggling. Despite Johnson being a Democrat, he was Lincoln’s running mate. As a Democrat of the 1860’s he did everything imaginable to prevent Black men from voting. The fights with congress with vetoes, firing of cabinet members and pardons flying faster than a speeding bullet are scary funny real. The literary comments about Johnson by Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Melville and Dickens are priceless. The violence against the black community during the reconstruction period is horrifying. This cautionary tale gives a bit of hope that the constitution and our country survived the failed impeachment proceedings.… (meer)
An early writing. Well written, well researched - but not about a nice person in any obvious way, without being nasty, without really being interesting. Rather read Gertrude Stein or the Alice Toklas Cookbook. Or that great book about the history of the New Yorker by Brendan Gill. Not a book to recommend - or pass on. I was amazed it arrived, ordered by post on a whim, so I had to read it.
I had to return this to the library so did not get to finish. Will I put it on hold again? Maybe. It seemed all over the place in time. It does humanize historical figures of the period which I found interesting.
Clunky writing at the start and I found I was giving a hard time keeping the people straight.
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