Edward J. Renehan Jr.

Edward John Renehan Jr. (born c. August 7, 1956) Several of the tracks Renehan recorded with Seeger reappeared in 2019 as part of the six-CD, table-top book retrospective "Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection" which won the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.

Friends Edward Renehan and Steve Buscemi photographed in the Spring of 2015. From left: Ed Renehan with actress Patricia Charbonneau, 2023.

In his early twenties he performed with Happy Traum, Artie Traum and others at various venues and folk festivals in the North East. Renehan stopped playing professionally in 1980, and only rarely ventured onto stages thereafter. thumb

Publishing and consulting Renehan graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz. He thereafter worked for several New York publishing companies, focusing on the developing domain of digital publishing, including e-publishing and print-on-demand (POD) technologies. His tenure included 7 years as Director of Computer Publishing Programs for MBCI/Macmillan, now a part of Bookspan.

From 1994, he worked as an independent consultant and author, including writing books on the Kennedys, Jay Gould and John Burroughs, as well as best-selling books about computers and computing.

In 2010, Renehan founded New Street Communications, an enterprise focused on audio, digital, and POD editions of books in a range of fields. According to a July 2013 report in the Providence Business News, the combined New Street firms had revenues of more than $200,000 in the 2012 fiscal year, which was the enterprise's second full year of operation. As of June 2015, the firm had 85 titles in print.

In 2022, he founded the New Street division illume Media, a boutique a la cart publishing agency offering ghostwriting, writing, editing, book-doctoring, design, audiobook creation, eBook creation, and hybrid- and self-publishing guidance to clients interested in any or all of these services. The firm's focus is on nonfiction with specialties in finance, investing, management, and related fields.

Family and affiliations Renehan is married and lives in the village of Wickford, Rhode Island. He has two adult children, and is a grandfather. He has served on several nonprofit boards, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. With Stewart Brand and others, he is a founding member of The Long Now Foundation.

Works (partial list) Deliberate Evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader The Life of Charles Stewart Mott: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Mr. Flint The Enkert Dossiers Desperate Voyage: Donald Crowhurst, The London Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, and the Tragedy of Teignmouth Electron Dylan at Newport, 1965: Music, Myth, and Un-Meaning Pete Seeger vs. The Un-Americans: A Tale of the Blacklist Understanding Kerouac's ON THE ROAD Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons The Kennedys at War The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown John Burroughs: An American Naturalist Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and his Family in Peace and War