Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance
Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
With ¡Obamanos!, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.
The Obama Family 'Homecoming'
Dayo Olopade is the Washington correspondent for TheRoot.com.
Ghana's new president described President Obama's trip there as a "homecoming," but it is Michelle who is really going back to her roots.
The Making of the Book That Made Obama
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
Obama's agent and editor open up about the Obama who penned Dreams From My Father-from his work ethic and business attire, to his ego and PR savvy. Plus, why his first effort was originally rejected.
Audio Book-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. Though my usual practice is to read books, I highly recommend listening to our president-elect read his autobiography on CD because it is a very compelling and beautifully written story t...
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
Barack Obama's book Dreams from My Father is incredibly well-written and will give readers further insights into how fortunate we are to have him as our new president. He is unusually psychologically minded, thoughtful, self-reflective a...
Gail Saltz is associate professor of psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. and a mental-health contributor for NBC's Today show. She is author of Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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