false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179861365m/965180.jpg 965180 2 <div>The story of the boardwalk town Bruce Springsteen made famous-and a quintessential portrait of small-town American democracy.<br><br>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. But behind this archetypal small-town landscape lies a complicated past.<br><br>Starting with the town's founding as a religious promised land, music journalist and poet Daniel Wolff plots a course through 130 years of entwined social and musical history, touching on John Philip Sousa, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Lymon on the way to the town Bruce was born to run from. Out of the details of local history-the boardwalk in the Gilded Age; the celebrities who passed through, from Stephen Crane to Martin Luther King; sensational murder trials; the birth of Mob control; and a devastating mid-century "race riot"-emerges a universal story of one small town's fortunes. Told with grace and full of fascinating detail, Daniel Wolff's tour across thirteen decades of the Fourth of July in Asbury Park captures all the allure and heartbreak of the American dream reduced to blight and decay, with gentrification as the one hope for a return to its glory days. <br></div> 950077 4 7 2005 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land total:22|5:5|4:13|3:2|2:2| 22 87 34 6 5 1 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 04:10:19 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 15:44:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 26 06:26:17 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:28:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 18:48:08 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 18:48:29 -0700 2009 http://bookaweekwithjen.blogspot.com/200...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Dec 28 12:56:33 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 10:21:57 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 06:02:09 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 06:03:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Aug 20 08:04:14 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 08:04:51 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 02:05:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 02:05:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 07:37:17 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 07:37:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 13:50:44 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:51:13 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Sep 12 12:35:35 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:35:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 19:57:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 19:57:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 11:12:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 04:22:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 11:12:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 09 22:44:49 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 22:44:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 27 11:08:25 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 11:08:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 16 08:52:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 08:52:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 14:51:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 14:51:41 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 12 04:24:20 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 05:34:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 04 10:16:10 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 10:16:37 -0800 2009 2 3 0 false false Fri Jan 09 17:30:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 17:30:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 22 10:00:43 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:00:43 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=965180