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            <title><![CDATA[Dylan's Spectacular Concert]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week at Terminal 5 in New York, Bob Dylan played one of his best shows in years, says Sean Wilentz-and showed how he's still reinventing himself.
Bob Dylan and his band returned to New York this Thanksgiving week for three sold-out shows...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dylan Speaks!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ With his radio show and memoirs, the normally taciturn musician opened up and changed the way his fans thought of him, says Sean Wilentz in an excerpt from Bob Dylan in America.
To say that Dylan, by 2006, appeared to be more open and talkative with...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Darker Meanings in a Bob Dylan Masterpiece]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In an excerpt from Sean Wilentz's new book, Bob Dylan in America, the writer reveals the darker meanings of the enigmatic singer's late-blooming masterpiece, "Blind Willie McTell."
The Power Station studio is hushed; there is a barely audible...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Dylan Recordings Unveiled]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Columbia Records announced the release of two new sets of unreleased recordings, one of which shows how he changed songwriting and the other how his songs were meant to be heard-in mono.
Columbia Records announced Tuesday that it will release in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:05:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[July 4th's Forgotten Partisan History]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Every year Americans celebrate our patriotic unity, but historian Sean Wilentz writes that from the start this day was used by opponents to score political points-and that we shouldn't forget our history is as much about conflict as comity.
Even at a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:36:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Bob Dylan a Phony?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ After Joni Mitchell accused Bob Dylan of plagiarism, the blogosphere exploded and Dylan detractors cheered. Sean Wilentz on why they-and Joni-are wrong.
When Joni Mitchell trashed Bob Dylan in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week, using...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:15:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heroine of the Hour]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[No House speaker in modern times performed as powerfully as Nancy Pelosi has in bringing health-care reform to the brink of passage. Sean Wilentz on Pelosi's historic performance.
The political hero of health-care reform has turned out to be Speaker...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:01:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama, Fire Your Staff!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president needs to learn an important lesson, says historian Sean Wilentz: Sometimes the most loyal staffers are the most destructive to a commander in chief's agenda.
Now that President Obama has confronted some harsh political realities over...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:23:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dylan's Early Christmas Present]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.
When word...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:28:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grade: Incomplete]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama leaves many questions unanswered after 100 days, but he's already doing better than JFK and Lincoln, who got off to disastrous starts en route to greatness.
There's no question Obama's gotten off to a strong, promising start and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:18:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dylan, Sunny Side Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.
Listening to the third track of Bob Dylan's new album, Together...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:49:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Day of Reckoning]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president did an excellent job explaining how the federal government has spurred economic growth in the past, but, historian Sean Wilentz asks, when is he going to lay out a specific vision for America's future?
It's been nearly a decade since the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:45:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goodnight, Bush]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With his substantive inaugural address, Barack Obama repudiated the policies of "The Worst President in History" and set a cogent agenda for the future.
"To choose our better history."
In a phrase, President Barack Obama's inaugural speech picked up...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Last Lap]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Historian Sean Wilentz talks to Jesse Jackson and civil-rights veterans about their awe of-and tensions with-the Obama campaign.
"I've been able to see our nation get better," the Rev. Jesse Jackson muses, in joyful anticipation of Barack Obama's...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:09:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hot Shot Democrat You've Never Heard Of]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The author, a Princeton professor, reports from the campaign trail on a New Mexico congressional race that could make history.
I'm here in Albuquerque to volunteer for the Democrat Martin Heinrich's campaign in the final election stretch. Once a...]]></description>
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