Dylan's Early Christmas Present
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.
News of Bob Dylan's album of Christmas songs shocked fans. But his official historian-in-residence, Sean Wilentz, detects not a single ironic or parodic note in Christmas in the Heart-just a sincere homage to American Christmases past.
The Week in Culture
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From prima ballerinas to "It actresses," Waiting for Godot to the Ring cycle, a look at what happened this week in art, dance, music, and pop.
With the world apparently falling apart (Pandemics! Economic collapse!), Samuel Beckett's existential masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, has suddenly ...
100 Days Report Card
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How's Obama doing so far? The Daily Beast's all-star team of analysts, from Christopher Buckley to Paul Begala, Sean Wilentz to Rep. Peter King, weigh in.
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.
Lincoln's second inauguration speech is one of my favorites because it raised the difficult truth that God's intentions and men's might not be the same. And because it came to terms with slavery as no president had-and none would, really...
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.
The Last Lap
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.
Historian Sean Wilentz talks to Jesse Jackson and civil-rights veterans about their awe of-and tensions with-the Obama campaign.
The Hot Shot Democrat You've Never Heard Of
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.
The author, a Princeton professor, reports from the campaign trail on a New Mexico congressional race that could make history.
A Chance for the Long Shots
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.
At least in Hyde Park, there is optimism, growing less guarded by the hour, about a huge Obama victory-which, of course, will make the Windy City into the nation's de facto political clubhouse.
Obama's Panic Problem
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.
Obama's recent surge suggests class now trumps race in America-but troubles still await him.
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