The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate

by Dorothy Wickenden

A collection of articles and essays from America's most influential periodical of politics and culture encompasses contributions by some of the twentieth century's most distinguished statesmen, scholars, and politicians.

Genres: Anthologies

528 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 1973

About the author

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 Street Journal, The New Republic, the Washington Post, and the Wilson Quarterly.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a magna cum laude graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1988-1989. She served as a member of the Colleges’ Board of Trustees from 1994-1998.

Wickenden lives with her husband and two daughters in Westchester, New York.

Reviews

[Lucas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting. The three general periods covered by this collection of essays are the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of the Weimar Republic and the contra war in Nicaragua. It is a strange editorial decision that places the latter along with the other two moments of extreme crisis. Perhaps the editors believed that the contras would start WWIII and they would look prescient in retrospect. Certainly, it appears that they tried their manly best to precipitate that outcome. Cooler heads do not always prevail, but in this case they did. Lucky us.

[Nicolas Shump · Rating 5 out of 5]

The New Republic is probably my favorite magazine of all time. This is a great collection that runs from 1914-1994. Started as a socialist/progressive magazine, it has become very moderate, if not neo-conservative within the last 15 years. So much of that is not collected here, but it is a great reader.

[Ginger Heskett]

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