Walter Isaacson

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written amazon.com/Greatest-Sente…

Open for nearly a century, this beloved Uptown New Orleans college bar is now for sale nola.com/entertainment_…

✨ The best chapter yet! ✨ It was an amazing four days of ideas, inspiration, and community — a true Mardi Gras for the mind! Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2026 New Orleans Book Festival a success. See you next year!

Here are many of the talks at this year’s wonderful New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane @nolabookfest?si=CcxUnQuXRrOThNF7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@nolabookfest?… via @YouTube

Thanks so much to the New Orleans Book Festival for having me and Holly Gleason and allowing us to chat about our book Heart Life Music. It was great to see @AndersonCooper, @DaxShepard, @KenBurns, @WalterIsaacson and all the brilliant minds that were a part of the festival. Thanks for having me. #HeartLifeMusic

Salman Rushdie, Kara Swisher, Clint Smith among highlights at Friday's Book Fest nola.com/entertainment_…

Saints kicker Charlie Smyth, who is from Ireland, gets to experience a REAL St. Paddy’s day parade

Andrew Ross at same time! look at these presenters!!!!

Good Friends bar, Dauphine and St Ann, New Orleans

Watch Walter Isaacson and I disagree about, of all things, the Declaration of Independence! [The Greatest Sentence Ever Written] c-span.org/program/book-t…

Chris Rose revisits ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ ahead of New Orleans Book Festival. Such a great article by one of our greatest talents. Thanks Chris nola.com/entertainment_…

Only at #NOLABookFest! While on campus for New Orleans Book Festival, the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee stopped by @WalterIsaacson's classroom at @Tulane.

youtube.com/playlist?list=… FOLKS… The texts, emails and calls come regularly. At least once a week. Sometimes more. “Jmart, I’m going to [fill-in-the-blank city], where should I eat?” friends, colleagues and sometimes folks I barely know at all will ask. Often, the question in reference is about New Orleans, America’s greatest city and the town my wife, Betsy, and I call home. But just as frequently, it’s about somewhere else, where there’s a conference or wedding or news event. I’ve yet to meet the person who doesn’t want to find a good meal on the road. Which is why this week I’m starting “On the Road with Jonathan Martin.” After over 20 years of covering politics and visiting all 50 states along the way, I’ve eaten a lot of meals with politicians and those around them. Now I want to take you with me, have you watch and listen as I sit down and (quite literally) break bread at local joints with Democrats and Republicans alike. My vision: Anthony Bourdain meets “Lunch with the FT” meets the Almanac of American Politics. We’ll talk food, politics and place, delving into yesterday and tomorrow. It’s the great question at the heart of every political story, and it couldn’t be more relevant in America’s 250th year: How did we get here, and where are we going? We begin at Wright’s BBQ in Little Rock, Arkansas, where I had the ribs (great rub), brisket and mac and cheese last week with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. More on that below. I’m headed to California next, where I’ll dip into some Dungeness crab with California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Proud of what Cheryl has built with @NOLAbookfest. Come join us in New Orleans this week. #tncms-source=featured-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nola.com/entertainment_…

The schedule of next week’s New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane, in a grid chart just like the grids you know from JazzFest. ⁦@NOLAbookfest⁩ tulane.app.box.com/s/r0h4kj5b2862…

Here is the just-released schedule for the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane, in two weeks. Done with our partner, @TheAtlantic. Free and open to the public. @NOLAbookfest @Tulane bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule

Leadership lessons from jazz. @wyntonmarsalis

I sat down with @WalterIsaacson for @AmanpourCoPBS to reflect on nearly 40 years at Jazz at Lincoln Center (@jazzdotorg)... why we started, what we built, and what comes next. Jazz is the perfect metaphor for democracy.

Walter Isaacson focused his formidable research and story telling on "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written". In depth research of each phrase and nuance. Isaacson has chosen the perfect approach to refocus on the first steps of freedom in America. All told as a fascinating historical mystery. Perfect time to reveal our beginnings. @WalterIsaacson

USMC Mardi Gras

A way to celebrate America’s 250th. With @StephenAtHome youtu.be/29eo5XnuMOs?si… via @YouTube