Dorothy Wickenden
Autor(a) de Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
About the Author
Dorothy Wickenden, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing Dounted, is the executive editor of The New Yorker. She also writes for the magazine and moderates its weekly podcast Politics and More. A recipient of MacDowell and Nieman fellowships, Wickenden was the national affairs editor mostrar mais at Newsweek, and before that, the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. Wickenden lives with her husband in Westchester, New York. mostrar menos
Obras por Dorothy Wickenden
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (BA)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 920
- Popularidade
- #27,887
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 41
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 1
I really did enjoy this book, but at the same time, given the title and the cover, I expected a lot more about Harriet Tubman, and a lot more on the friendships between these women. At times it felt like a biography of two white women who happened to know Harriet Tubman. Why was there not more of Tubman? Is there more scare information? Or did Wickenden expect us to already be familiar? And for long stretches on each woman's life I would almost forget that they knew each other and be surprised when one of them showed up in another's story.
Also, there are way too many people with the same names or similar names and it got confusing. I would have appreciated the occasional reminder of which person we were talking about.
All that aside though, I found this to be a truly impressive work. I especially appreciated the depiction of the very intentional ways that those in power sundered the women's suffrage moment from the abolition movement after the war -- creating an environment for those suffragettes whose abolition work was more rooted in pity than empathy/solidarity to lean into their white supremacist tendencies.
This also drove home just how much of history/life is relationship -- the people you are surrounded with, those you influence and those who influence you.
An excellent and accessible piece of the American story.… (mais)