Brenda Wineapple
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https://brendawineapple.com/, The United States
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The Scarlet Letter
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7244 editions
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1850
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
4 editions
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2019
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
11 editions
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2008
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Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
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2013
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Hawthorne: A Life
8 editions
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2003
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
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2024
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Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
7 editions
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1989
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Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
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1996
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19th Century American Writers on Writing
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2010
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[White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson] (By: Brenda Wineapple) [published: December, 2009]
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“We talk of literature as if it were a mere matter of rule and measurement, a series of processes long since brought to mechanical perfection: but it would be less incorrect to say that it all lies in the future; tried by the outdoor standard, there is as yet no literature, but only glimpses and guideboards; no writer has yet succeeded in sustaining, through more than some single occasional sentence, that fresh and perfect charm. If by the training of a lifetime one could succeed in producing one continuous page of perfect cadence, it would be a life well spent, and such a literary artist would fall short of Nature’s standard in quantity only, not in quality.”
― White Heat
― White Heat
“Impeaching a President implies that we make mistakes, grave ones, in electing or appointing officials, and that these elected men and women might be not great but small—unable to listen to, never mind to represent, the people they serve with justice, conscience, and equanimity. Impeachment suggests dysfunction, uncertainty, and discord—not the discord of war, which can be memorialized as valorous, purposeful, and idealistic, but the far less dramatic and often squalid, sad, intemperate conflicts of peace, partisanship, race, and rancor. Impeachment implies a failure—a failure of government of the people to function, and of leaders to lead. And presidential impeachment means failure at the very top.”
― The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
― The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
“DeBow’s Review noted with contempt. “It is a melancholy exemplification of the facility with which a philanthropist, who devotes himself exclusively to the eradication of one form of evil, can deceive himself, and come to regard any means justifiable, in the pursuance of a supposed good end,” the reviewer said. “That subtle analyst of character, Nathaniel Hawthorne, has ably dissected this species of delusion in the Blithedale romance.” He recommended that Stowe”
― Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
― Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
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