Dorothy Wickenden
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.
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. See less
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Dorothy Wickenden book reviews
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Real American History
by Bill M, Feb 13, 2014
I first encountered this work as an outstanding excerpt in The New Yorker. It gives a good feel for what settlers in the West lived with. Read More
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
women go west
by BruceHH, Jan 27, 2012
Two young women from Auburn New York, were close friends from childhood, going to Smith College together and spending a year in Europe together decided to take up teaching positions in Routt County, ... Read More
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
The Way it Was
by Joann T, Dec 31, 2011
For anyone who knows Routt County, Colorado this book is an absolute gem! We lived in Steamboat Springs for a long time and Mother was in Assisted Living in Hayden, so the territory was very ... Read More
