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Brenda Wineapple

Biography

Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple is the prize-winning 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.

Brenda Wineapple

Books by Brenda Wineapple

Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
by Brenda Wineapple - History, Nonfiction

For America, the mid-19th century was an era of vast expectation and expansion: the country dreamed big, craved new lands, developed new technologies, and after too long a delay, finally confronted its greatest moral failure: slavery. Brenda Wineapple explores these feverish, ecstatic, conflicted years when Americans began to live within new and ever-widening borders; fought a devastating war over parallel ideals of freedom and justice; and transformed their country, at tragic cost, from a confederation into one nation, indivisible.