NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by
Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Publishers Weekly
By Brenda Wineapple
THE IMPEACHERS
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
“The relevance of this riveting and absorbing book is clear enough… literary and incisive… vivid and perceptive … ”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“Brenda Wineapple’s riveting new account of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson contains no mention of President Trump. But Wineapple has written a stunningly well-timed book on a question ripped from the headlines. Compulsively readable”
— John Fabian Witt, The Washington Post
“Superbly lyrical… A landmark study.”
— Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Grant.
Walt Whitman Speaks
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Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America’s past, chronicaling the years surrounding the Civil War, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery.
WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters—between Emily Dickinson, the elusive, original poet and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer whom we have to thank for the publication of Dickinson’s poetry.
HAWTHORNE: A Life
“The best biography of Hawthorne, the Hawthorne for our time. Beautifully conceived and written.”
SISTER BROTHER Gertrude and Leo Stein
The first glimpse into the relationship of two of the century’s most unusual figures, who collaborated in one of the great art and literary journeys of this century.
Brenda Wineapple, a superb literary critic, has a historian’s soul.
– Sean Wilentz
Wineapple’s analysis is insightful, her meticulous documentation unobtrusive.
– The Washington Post Book World
She is a beautiful writer, at once lyrical and measured.