Posted on 04/18/2006 5:56:02 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
"George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace."
So declares ROLLING STONE magazine in a planned cover story, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
"The Worst President in History?" streets Friday.
Developing...
Thanks for the cover - anyone know who the "leading historian" is?
Or maybe "II" is for 9/11. Or for the WTC towers.
Dunno.
I've never read it, and don't care.
It's all laughable anyway..how can a historian evaluate anything while President Bush is STILL in office?
Actually, I see that Professor Wilentz may be the historian (not the reporter) from Princeton (and Contributing Editor
The New Republic 1994 - current): http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q4/wilentz-bio.htm
Should be an interesting read.
"George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace."
Well then dammit, he lost my vote in the next election!!!!
Well, well...he replaces Ronald Reagan.
Great company.
Anyone have any back issues from The Reagan Years?
Michael Moore?
Hook me up? I am not familiar with the man. Can you give me some background?
HAHA
I have no idea who he is - just looking him up on-line - I've been to Princeton ONCE in my life. Here's an interesting read where he slams Christopher Hitchens as a "revisionist historian":
http://hnn.us/articles/1882.html
He was on the cover at least once -- they worshipped him (and still do, I'm sure).
He was president for only a month.
Doesn't matter. What did he get done during his entire Presidency?
What is a rolling stone magazine?
Looks like a Pinko:
SEAN WILENTZ
Dayton-Stockon Professor of History
Director, Program in American Studies
Department of History
Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
EMPLOYMENT
Professor
Department of History
Princeton University
1987 -
Contributing Editor
The New Republic
1994 -
Associate Professor
Department of History
Princeton University
1985 - 1987
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Princeton University
1979 - 1985
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Yale University, 1980.
M. Phil., Yale University, 1976.
M.A., Yale University, 1975.
B.A., Balliol College, Oxford University, 1974.
BA., Columbia College, Columbia University, 1972.
AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Cotsen Family Faculty Fellowship, 1994-1997 (for excellence in teaching).
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1990-91.
University Teachers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-91 (declined)
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies/Ford Foundation, 1986.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, 1985 (for Chants Democratic)
Annual Book Award, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1985 (for Chants Democratic).
Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association, 1984 (for Chants Democratic).
Edward Gaylord Bourne Medal for excellence in historical studies, Yale University, 1983.
Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship in History, Princeton University, 1982-1985.
Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University, 1980.
George Washington Eggleston Prize, Yale University, 1980.
Chanler Historical Prize, Columbia College, 1972.
Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College, 1972.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
(with Paul E. Johnson) The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 222 pp.
(with Michael Merrill) The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning. "A Laborer." 1747-1814 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), 240 pp.
(ed.) Major Problems in the Early Republic (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992), 568 pp.
(ed.) Rites of Power: Symbolism. Ritual. and Politics Since the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985), 350 pp.
Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class. 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 446 pp.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS (excluding brief reviews):
(with Christine Stansell) "Cole's America," in William H. Treuttner and Alan Wallach, eds., Thomas Cole: Landscape Into History (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art., 1994).
"The Election of 1840," in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed., Running for President: The Candidates and Their Images (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
"Hearts and Souls," on W.E.B. DuBois, The New Republic, March 20, 1994.
(with Michael Merrill), "The Key of Liberty: William Manning and Plebeian Democracy, 1747-1814," in Alfred F. Young, ed., Beyond The American Revolution (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
"Pox Populi" (on Ross Perot in historical perspective), New Republic, August 14, 1993.
"Tales of Hoffa," The New Republic, February 1, 1993.
"Low Life, High Art" (on George Bellows), The New Republic, September 28, 1992.
"A Triumph of the Gilded Age" (on the Homestead strike), New York Review of Books, October 22, 1992.
(with Daniel T. Rodgers), "Languages of Power in the United States," in Penelope Corfield, ed., Language. Class and History (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Entries on Andrew Jackson, Jacksonian Democracy, and Frances Wright, in Eric Foner and John Garraty, eds., The Readers' Companion to American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).
"Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 1815-1848," in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
"Property and Power: Suffrage Reform in the United States, 1787-1860," in Donald W. Rogers, ed., Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy (Hartford: University of Hartford, 1990).
"The Trials of Televangelism," in Nicolaus Mills, ed., Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980's in America (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990).
"The Rise of the American Working Class, 1776-1877: A Survey," in J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, eds. , Perspectives on American Labor History (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1990).
"Local Hero" (on Saul Alinsky), The New Republic, December 25, 1989.
"The New History and Its Critics: A Look at Gertrude Himmelfarb's Complaint," Dissent (Spring, 1989).
(with Christine Stansell) "Gutman's Legacy," Labor History, vol. 29, no. 3 (Spring, 1988): 378-390.
"Many Democracies: On Tocqueville and Jacksonian America," in Abraham Eisenstadt, ed., Reconsidering Tocqueville's Democracy in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).
"Repubblicanesimo americano: xenofobia, mutualita e liberta nella citta di New York," in Loretta Valtz Mannucci, ed. , Gli Stati Uniti nell'eta di Jackson (Bologna: Mulino, 1987).
"Land, Labor, and Politics in Jacksonian America," Reviews in American History, 14 (1986): 200-209.
"On Working-Class Culture in the United States: A Report and Some Reflections," Mezzosecolo 5 (1983/84): 27-42 (written in 1982, published in 1986).
"A Reply to Criticism," International Labor and Working Class History, 28 (1985): 46-55.
"Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920," International Labor and Working Class History, 26 (1984): 1-24.
(with Michael A. Bernstein), "Marketing, Commerce, and Capitalism in Rural Massachusetts," Journal of Economic History 44 (1985): 171-73.
"Power, Conspiracy, and the Early Labor Movement: The People V. James Melvin, 1811," Labor History 24 (1983): 572-579.
"Artisan Republican Festivals and the Rise of Class Conflict in New York City 1788-1837," in Michael A. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working-Class America: Essays on Labor Community. and Society (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), 37-77.
"On Class and Politics in Jacksonian America," Reviews in American History 10 (1982): 45-63.
"Artisan Origins of the American Working Class," International Labor and Working Class History 18 (1981): 1-22.
"Crime, Poverty, and the Streets of New York City:
The Diary of William H. Bell, 1850-51," History Workshop, No. 7 (1979): 126-155.
"Industrializing American and the Irish: Towards the New Departure," Labor History 20 (1979): 579-595.
REVIEWS, etc. (1992-94 only)
"A Sense of the Past," review of E.L. Doctorow, The Waterworks. Dissent, Fall, 1994.
"With God on Our Side," review of Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination, The New Republic, September, 1994.
"The Question," (with Eugene D. Genovese, et al.), Dissent, Summer, 1994.
"The Left After 40 Years" (with Joanne Barkan, et al.), Dissent, Winter 1994.
"Debs in Love," review of J. Robert Constantine, Letters of Eugene V. Debs, Dissent, Winter, 1993.
Untitled review of Jonathan Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America. American Historical Review, 97 (1992): 1594-95.
(with Michael Merrill), "The Big House," on Congressional enlargement, The New Republic (with Michael Merrill), November 16, 1992.
"Over the Hill," review of George Will, Restoration: Congress Term Limits. and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy, The New Republic, October 12, 1992.
"The original Outsider," review of Charles C. Sellers, Jr The Market Revolution, The New Republic, June 22, 1992.
Untitled review of Shane White, Somewhat More Independent The End of Slavery in New York City. 1770-1810. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 (Summer, 1992): 197-199.
Untitled review of Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic, International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 42 (Fall, 1992): 141-143.
"1492: A Symposium" (with Natalie Zemon Davis, et al.), Tikkun, September-October, 1992.
"War on Labor Explains Labor's Decline," New York Times, February 7, 1992.
Previously, I have written approximately three dozen reviews for various publications, including The New York Times Book Review. London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, Tikkun, The Village Voice, American Historical Review, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Labor History. Since 1993, I have written approximately a dozen reviews for the History Book Club.
IN PRESS
David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, ed. and with a new introduction (New York: Hill and Wang, due 1995).
"Socialism," in Richard W. Fox and James Kloppenberg, A Companion to American Thought (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, due 1995).
Papers and Professional Appearances (1992-94 only)
Commentator: Colloque on Citizenship and The Working Class, Maison des Sciences de L'Home, Paris, October 1994.
(with Michael Merrill), "Plebeian Democracy in the Age of Revolution," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 1994.
"Jacksonion Abolitionism: The Odyssey of William Leggett," Annual Commonwealth Conference, University of London, February 1994.
"Symbolism, Politics, and Memory," Consultant and director, two-day workshop, University of Texas at El Paso, March 1993.
"Plebeian Democracy in the Early Republic," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, February 1993.
"On the Age of Jackson," invited conference, "The Age of Schlesinger: An Historical Conversation," Graduate Center, City University of New York, December 1992.
"Herbert Gutman and the Politics of Social History," conference, "Paterson at 200," William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, December 1992.
"William Manning and the Invention of American Politics," Yale University, May 1992.
Comment: "The Historical Whitman," lecture series commemorating the centenary of Whitman's death, Museum of the City of New York, March 1992.
Previously, I have delivered approximately fifty papers, lectures, and comments at various universities and professional gatherings, among them Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, University of Connecticut, Memphis State University, Brooklyn College, University of Milan, Johann von Goethe Universitat (Frankfurt), the Japanese American Studies Association, Kyoto University, University of Utah, University of California at Irvine, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association. In 1988, I delivered the annual Alexander C. Flick lecture to the New York State Historical Association; in 1991, I delivered the annual Society of the Cincinnati lecture at Washington and Lee University.
IN PROGRESS
The Rise of American Democracy. 1787-1860, under contract to W.W. Norton and Company
MISCELLANEOUS
Executive Board, Society of American Historians, 1992- Fellow, Society of American Historians, 1988-
Executive Board, Dissent, 1993-
Editorial Board, Dissent, 1990
University Press Board, Princeton University Press, 1992-
Editorial Board, History Book Club, 1993-
Co-editor, University of Illinois Press series on the working class in American history, 1985-
Editorial Board, International Labor and Working Class History, 1984-
Judge, Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 1992. Judge, Non-Fiction, National Book Awards, 1991.
My son subscribed to it last year for the music articles. I was amused by the scathing political content, phrased in 8th-grade English for the Abercrombie & Fitch generation. All of it hogwash punctuated by frequent use of the f-word. Some raving PETA type named Matt Taibbi always writes about how cruel and hideous Republicans are...I wonder if the Dems own stock in RS? Anyway, it is a once-great music magazine which now reviews music none of us would listen to in a million years. It hopes to reach young people and tell them that if they are smart and hip, they must work to topple capitalism...and every other page is an ad for $200 jeans. You'd have to be in 8th grade to make any sense of it, I guess.
Wenner came out as gay? Unbelievable!
President Bush as the worst in history? What about Carter and Clinton and Johnson, just to mention three of the worst of all time, and all during the life of Rolling Stone!
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