Dylan, Sunny Side Up
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
Bob Dylan's official historian-in-residence, Sean Wilentz, gets an early listen of the bard's new album. Protest anthems? Out. These are the songs of the consummate American musician.
Beyonce Meets Etta
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme talks with Cadillac Records director Darnell Martin about getting Beyonce, Mos Def, and Jeffrey Wright to channel Chicago's blues legends.
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.
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