It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Moses!
Bruce Feiler is the author of Walking the Bible and Abraham and the host of Walking the Bible on PBS. His new book, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, is published Oct. 6.
Superman was based on him, Charlton Heston played him, and politicians quote him-Moses is as American as apple pie, Bruce Feiler writes in his new book, America's Prophet.
Presidential Conspiracies
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Obama's "birther" scandal isn't the first wacky theory about a president. From John Adams' royal plot to Mary Lincoln's spy games, Benjamin Sarlin on the nuttiest controversies.
Nothing Happened on the Fourth
Step away from the grill: Bestselling historian Joseph Ellis says we're celebrating our nation's independence on the wrong day. How history screwed up the date.
The Original Power Couple
Dr. Edith Gelles began her research into the Adamses over thirty years ago and is the author of two books about Abigail for the academic market: Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, a co-winner of the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award, and Abigail Adams: A Writing Life, an examination of Abigail’s life through her letters. She lives in Palo Alto, California.
Before Beyoncé and Jay-Z and Bill and Hillary, there was John and Abigail Adams. In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Edith B. Gelles paints a portrait of two partners in revolution.
Patton Like You've Never Seen Him Before
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's books include Ike, Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives.
A new History Channel series on George S. Patton points the way toward a brave new world of digitally enhanced history. Michael Korda on whether it does Old Blood and Guts justice.
Why Michelle Wows the Brits
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
For starters, she has similar qualities to the Queen: dedication, authenticity, and a very different attitude to clothes than Carla Bruni.
Presidential Drag Gallery
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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid are now signed to play Bill and Hillary in an upcoming HBO film penned by Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan. VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous presidential impersonators.
Hallelujah Junction by John Adams is a great (and funny) American story. Right now we're losing touch with the sense of possibility promised by the American Dream, and Adams' book is a quintessential story of achievement and possibility.
Marin Alsop is music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She is the first woman to head a major American orchestra, mirroring her ongoing success in the UK as principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra since 2002.
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.
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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.
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