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.
Why Black Preachers Are Better
Howell Raines is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the former executive editor of the New York Times. He is the author of several books, including My Soul Is Rested and Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis. He is a contributor to Condé Nast Portfolio.
Forget Jeremiah Wright. Howell Raines on what Rev. Lowery and other African-American preachers have added this week to the Obama mystique.
Oath of Office, Take Two
With a decent sense of humor about the whole thing, Chief Justice Roberts-who screwed up the first time-gives President Obama the proper oath of office.
Obama Swears In and In and In
A comedic spin on the Obama inauguration flub from Funny or Die.
Chaos in D.C. After Ceremony
There may have been euphoria during the inauguration, but shortly after, the citizens of America got down to doing what we do best -- complaining.
Obama Walks, MSNBC Gushes
True, no president has walked Pennsylvania Avenue on inauguration day since Carter, but do you think Andrea Mitchell gets a little TOO excited by the whole thing?
Obama's Inauguration Speech
From CBS News, the full speech. The transcript is available here.
Bush Booed at Inauguration
As Chris Matthews shakes his head at the 'bad form' of it all, the crowd serenades George W. Bush with a rousing 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.'
Mondale Describes Kennedy Collapse
Walter Mondale says Ted Kennedy 'was in great spirits' at lunch today before Kennedy, who is suffering from a brain tumor, had a seizure. More information here.
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.
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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