num_pages: 288
description: "Wonderfully evocative…a 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.
language: English
title: 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land
titlecomplete: 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land
genres: Nonfiction, History, Music, American History
ratings_count: 140
publisher: Bloomsbury USA