Bruce Springsteen's America
Subtitle: The People Listening, a Poet Singing
Publisher: Random House
Published: October 28, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780375505591
First sentence: THE ORIGINS OF THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK, AND OF THE decision to do the work that made this writing possible, go back to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when I was a college student studying the writing and working life of a New Jersey physician and poet, William Carlos Williams, who lived in Rutherford and ventured sometimes to Paterson and other cities of the Garden State.
Description: Offers a portrait of Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of his lyrics within a social, cultural, and philosophical context.