4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land

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$17.42 - $300.00
UPC:
9781596911147
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2006-06-27
Release Date:
2006-06-27
Author:
Daniel Wolff
Language:
english

Product Overview

Wonderfully evocativea grand, sad story of racism and real estate, political hardball and seaside pleasure-seeking. A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review

When Bruce Springsteen called his first album Greetings from Asbury Park, he introduced a generation of fans to a fallen seaside resort town that came to represent working-class American life. Starting with the town's founding as a religious promised land, music journalist and poet Daniel Wolff plots a course through Asbury Park's 130 years of entwined social and musical history, in a story that captures all the allure and heartbreak of the American dream.

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