Sully's New Co-Pilot
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Writer Jeffrey Zaslow told the world of Randy Pausch's last lecture. Now he's landed Chesley Sullenberger's memoir. Sara Nelson talks to Zaslow about his new book, The Girls From Ames.
Sully Is a Poet?
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Did you know it? America's favorite pilot "Sully" Sullenberger landed a two-book deal today worth more than $3 million. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Sara Nelson reports the second book will be...poetry.
A Man More Heroic Than Sully
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.
Chesley Sullenberger may have landed a plane in the Hudson River, but a true hero for our times is William Bleakley, the third victim in the boating accident that killed two NFL players.
Captain Sully: Coolest Man on Earth
It was worth the wait. After weeks of (near) media silence, Captain Sullenberger appeared on '60 Minutes,' describing his miraculous landing of Flight 1549. Clip above; full interview here.
Coast Guard Footage of Flight 1549 Crash
From the US Coast Guard, here's extraordinary footage of the crash landing of Flight 1549, and the speedy rescue of the passengers that followed.
Survivor: Valor After Crash 'Debatable'
According to these Flight 1549 survivors, the landing may have been perfect, but the exit from the plane included pushing, shoving and even attempts to grab luggage. Source: MSNBC
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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