This week’s Between the Covers podcast is with Terry Teachout, author of Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington. We discuss what was unique of Ellington’s music, how a black man born in 1899 gained popularity with white audiences, and what Ellington thought of rock & roll.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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