Home › Authors › W › Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple

Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2009
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
<p>Walter Russell Mead</p>

In a brilliant account of one of the oddest literary friendships in American history, Wineapple recounts the extraordinary story of two very different American writers: the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and the fiery abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Cover image

In the Magazine

November/December 2009, 6, 88
Essay
The Dollar and the Deficits
C. Fred Bergsten

The global economic crisis has revealed the folly of large U.S. budget and trade deficits, as well as of the strong dollar that makes them possible. If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.
Read