Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz is the author of Bob Dylan in America (2010) and The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. Wilentz’s father and uncle were co-owners of the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, and he grew up in the world that Fred W. McDarrah captured with his lens. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Sean Wilentz's Titles

Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window, 1956–1963

Bob Dylan's early work and emergence in the Greenwich Village music scene come to life through exclusive and unseen images and revelatory reporting...

Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes

During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched...