Wolff Daniel Wolff

Fourth of July, Asbury Park (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Promised Land

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bruce Springsteen brought international attention to the Jersey shore by naming his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. But the real Asbury Park has an even more fascinating story behind it: a seaside city of dreams that became a magnet for both the best and worst of America, playing host to John Philip Sousa, Count Basie, and Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as the mob and the Ku Klux Klan. Fourth of July, Asbury Park tells the tale of the city s first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, as well as the decay of its working-class neighborhoods and spread of its racially-segregated ghettos. Featuring exclusive interviews with Springsteen and other prominent Asbury Park residents, Daniel Wolff uncovers the history of how this Jersey shore resort town came to epitomize both the promises of the American dream and the tragic consequences when those promises are broken. Hailed by The New York Times as a wonderfully evocative grand, sad story when first published in 2006, this revised and expanded edition considers how Asbury Park has changed in the twenty-first century, experiencing both gentrification and new forms of segregation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978820418
• Artikelnr.: 72336962

Autorenporträt

DANIEL WOLFF is a Grammy-nominated non-fiction author and poet who has written a half-dozen books on American history and culture, from an award-winning biography of Sam Cooke to a best-selling dual biography of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. He also collaborated with photographer Eric Meola on Born to Run: The Unseen Photos. He resides in Nyack, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
Fourth of July, 1870 
Fourth of July, 1885 
American Day, 1892 
Fourth of July, 1903 
Fourth of July, 1924 
Fourth of July, 1941 
Fourth of July, 1956 
Fourth of July, 1970 
Fourth of July, 1978 
Fourth of July, 2001 
Update: Fourth of July, 2020 
Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Permissions 
Index