![]() ![]() ![]() His commentary for “Live 1964” also brought him a Deems Taylor award from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), a prize handed out for outstanding media coverage of music. He was a Grammy nominee for his liner notes to Dylan’s “Live 1964,” a Carnegie Hall performance released in 2004. ![]() Wilentz, 55, holds the untenured position of “historian-in-residence” at, which features various writings by the professor on the bard. “I’ve always had a sense of multiple identities,” the author, half Irish and half Jewish, told The Associated Press during a recent interview at his office on a cold, rainy afternoon. In still another life, he’s a music critic. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic and a Democrat who testified before Congress against the impeachment of President Clinton. Wilentz won the Bancroft, voted on by fellow historians, for “The Rise of American Democracy,” an 800-page chronicle of American political and social movements during the first half of the 19th century. ![]()
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