Runaway American dream
Subtitle: listening to Bruce Springsteen
By: Jimmy Guterman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Springsteen, Bruce; Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Over the course of a career now in its fourth decade, Bruce Springsteen has earned one of the most passionate, devoted followings in all rock 'n' roll. He's selling more records and concert tickets in his fifties than he sold in his twenties." "Yet to many fans he remains an enigma."

"How has Springsteen produced such a consistent body of work and retained his currency while other top rock 'n' rollers have gone by the wayside? Jimmy Guterman has been writing about Springsteen since the 1970s. In Runaway American Dream, he delves deep into dramatic and crucial moments from every phase of Springsteen's career, intepreting the songs and commenting on the man and the culture at large to deliver a nuanced portrait of The Boss from the earliest days right up to Springsteen's 2005 album, Devils & Dust."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: In the shadow of the Boss; title: Side two; title: The road to Nassau; title: The Jersey devil; title: In which I almost kill Max Weinberg; title: Hollywood; title: Nils Lofgren, Steve Van Zandt, and the last secret of rock'n'roll.