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Dorothy Wickenden

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Dorothy Wickenden became the Executive Editor of The New Yorker in January 1996. She joined the magazine as Managing Editor in March 1995. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast "The Political Scene." Wickenden is on the faculty of The Writers' Institute at CUNY's Graduate Center, where she teaches a course on narrative nonfiction.

Previously, Wickenden was National Affairs Editor at Newsweek from 1993 - 1995. Before that, she spent fifteen years at The New Republic, first as Managing Editor and later as Executive Editor. She edited “The New Republic Reader: 80 Years of Opinion and Debate” (Basic Books, 1994), an anthology of New Republic pieces. Ms. Wickenden has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall ...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 8,048 ratings · 1,634 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West 3.45 avg rating — 6,969 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights 4.03 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks.”
― Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

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“A freshman had to wear a black turtleneck sweater, corduroy trousers, and a little black cap called a ‘dink’ on the back of his head,” he wrote in his autobiography, Confessions of a Maverick”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

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“[Harriet Tubman] also looked out for other African-Americans in town, opening the first home in the country for elderly and indigent blacks. When Dorothy and Ros were small, the elderly Tubman rode a bicycle up and down South Street, stopping to ask for food donations. If she had specific needs, she sat on the back porch and waited for the lady of the house, with whom she would chat and ask for bedding or clothing for her residents. One of Ros's nieces said, "Mother had coffee with Harriet and would always leave a ham or turkey for her for the holiday.”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

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by Jennifer Niven

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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

by Dorothy Wickenden

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When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

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by Skip Hollandsworth

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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man'

by Sanford D. Greenberg

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by Denise Kiernan

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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

by Elizabeth Greenwood

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by Heather McGhee

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Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

by Ronald Brownstein

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