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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
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Daniel Wolff (Goodreads Author)
A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
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I received an advance copy of this first-rate book from the publisher and my blurb will be appearing on the cover when it's published in June, but might as well have any of you who are interested in Dylan, American music and the relationship between culture and history put it on your lists now.
Wolff begins with the 1913 Calumet massacre--in which 73 members of an Upper Michigan mining community, including 60 children, were killed in a stampede almost certainly orchestrated by the company they we ...more
Wolff begins with the 1913 Calumet massacre--in which 73 members of an Upper Michigan mining community, including 60 children, were killed in a stampede almost certainly orchestrated by the company they we ...more
Revolving around mining, music and murder, Daniel Wolff’s Grown- Up Anger explores the 1913 Calumet massacre in Michigan, Woody Guthrie’s political proselytizing beginning in the 1930’s and a young Bob Dylan, destined for musical greatness. Wolff’s narrative introduces “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, a revolutionary in labor circles and a witness to the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company Christmas catastrophe, where 73 people died. An angry Mother Bloor relays the devastating details to Woody Guthrie
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Take a piece of blank paper and draw a horizontal line, say 2 inches across. At the right end write the name Woody Guthrie and at the left end write Bob Dylan. A little to the right of the center place a hash mark and write Calumet massacre. Color the whole page Angry (with a capital A).
Historians say that our political views are largely shaped by the events occurring when we first become aware of the wider world and become politically conscious. Wolff, in the midst of a diffuse adolescent ange ...more
Historians say that our political views are largely shaped by the events occurring when we first become aware of the wider world and become politically conscious. Wolff, in the midst of a diffuse adolescent ange ...more
Could have done without the boomer "history ends in the 60s," navel gazing. Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is shoehorned into an interesting narrative. Also, the end covers the results of how the boomers failed America in the last chapter without the awareness it was the split between the anti-war movement and labor that destroyed the Roosevelt-Coalition. Which is odd because the book discusses the origin of the coalition...
Like most of his generation, Wolff wrote a compelling narrative but ...more
Like most of his generation, Wolff wrote a compelling narrative but ...more
The biggest takeaway from this for me was that Woody Guthrie's dad was a raging racist, and Woody had to learn otherwise as an adult.
The book was far more interesting when discussing the bloody history of organized labor than when discussing Dylan or Guthrie.
Only of real interest to those who are labor history geeks. I need to read more about that 1913 stampede at the copper miners' hall during the Christmas party.
The book was far more interesting when discussing the bloody history of organized labor than when discussing Dylan or Guthrie.
Only of real interest to those who are labor history geeks. I need to read more about that 1913 stampede at the copper miners' hall during the Christmas party.
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Grammy-nominated author Daniel Wolff's latest book is "Grown-up Anger: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913." His previous books include "The Names of Birds," "The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back," "How Lincoln Learned to Read,""4th of July/Asbury Park" and "You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke.""
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