{"title":"Dorothy Wickenden","description":"Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995, and before that was the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. She lives with her husband in Westchester, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"nothing-daunted-the-unexpected-education-of-two-society-girls-in-the-west-paperback","title":"Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Agitators\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eacclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to \"rough it\" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn't let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers' buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the \"settling up\" of the West.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51275795693791,"sku":"9781439176597","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pl3F_cl1FL9781439176597.webp?v=1787863930"},{"product_id":"the-agitators-three-friends-who-fought-for-abolition-and-womens-rights-paperback","title":"The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women's rights movements.\" --\u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the executive editor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history told through the story of three women--Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--in the years before, during and after the Civil War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1850s, Harriet Tubman, strategically brilliant and uncannily prescient, rescued some seventy enslaved people from Maryland's Eastern Shore and shepherded them north along the underground railroad. One of her regular stops was Auburn, New York, where she entrusted passengers to Martha Coffin Wright, a Quaker mother of seven, and Frances A. Seward, the wife of William H. Seward, who served over the years as governor, senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a spectacular river raid in which she helped to liberate 750 slaves from several rice plantations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wright, a \"dangerous woman\" in the eyes of her neighbors, worked side by side with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to organize women's rights and anti-slavery conventions across New York State, braving hecklers and mobs when she spoke. Frances Seward, the most conventional of the three friends, hid her radicalism in public, while privately acting as a political adviser to her husband, pressing him to persuade President Lincoln to move immediately on emancipation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Agitators\u003c\/i\u003e opens in the 1820s, when Tubman is enslaved and Wright and Seward are young homemakers bound by law and tradition, and ends after the war. Many of the most prominent figures of the era--Lincoln, William H. Seward, Frederick Douglass, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison--are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about the civil rights of African Americans and women, about the enlistment of Black troops, and about opposing interpretations of the Constitution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through richly detailed letters from the time and exhaustive research, Wickenden traces the second American revolution these women fought to bring about, the toll it took on their families, and its lasting effects on the country. Riveting and profoundly relevant to our own time, \u003ci\u003eThe Agitators\u003c\/i\u003e brings a vibrant, original voice to this transformative period in our history.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51288008949983,"sku":"9781476760742","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WnOFJHUEnM9781476760742.webp?v=1787939536"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/dorothy-wickenden.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}