Brenda Wineapple appears in the following:
Lessons From That Other Impeachment
Friday, December 06, 2019
In recent months, analogies to the Clinton and Nixon eras have been frequent. But what about our first presidential impeachment?
Video: Brenda Wineapple's Unlikely Friendship with Sybille Bedford
Friday, June 05, 2015
Acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple remembers her friend and mentor, Sybille Bedford, and talks about her own writing.
The "Legacy" of Sybille Bedford
Thursday, June 04, 2015
The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club is reading Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy, in which a marriage fatally entwines the fortunes of two German families in the run-up to WWI.
American Icons: The Scarlet Letter
Friday, May 16, 2014
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel about forbidden love among the Puritans captured our admiration for independence — and our craving for scandal. How much has changed in the 150 years since...
American Icons: The Scarlet Letter
Friday, November 01, 2013
One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors was a judge in the Salem witch trials. In his novel of early America, Hawthorne explores the tension between our deeply ingrained Puritanism and...
Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise in America: 1848-1877
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Brenda Wineapple looks at one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed of expansion and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 includes extraordinary characters, such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L.C Q. Lamar, and brilliantly balances cultural and political history.
