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Many of my favorite books crisscross genres. For instance, Life on the Mississippi, my favorite Mark Twain book, blends autobiography, travel essay, and social commentary. Sean Wilentz's new Bob Dylan in America is a book I can't let go of for the same reason. Wilentz is a Bancroft Prize winning historian, but this work, transparently a labor of love, isn't just a popular history or a cultural biography of Dylan; like the ageless troubadour himself, it weaves unpredictably through his story, touching down where it will. Thus, Wilentz muses on the influence of the Beats and Aaron Copland, then waltzes us off to a 1964 Dylan concert at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Nothing about the Hibbing enigma seems beyond or beneath his reach: With equal interest, he reflects on Dylan's apocalypticism and faith changes and on the musician's appropriation of carnival traditions. Wilentz engages the Minnesota transplant as a near-contemporary, someone grappling with issues that he can understand. It made me understand Dylan, and myself, in new ways.

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Many of my favorite books crisscross genres. For instance, Life on the Mississippi, my favorite Mark Twain book, blends autobiography, travel essay, and social commentary. Sean Wilentz's new Bob Dylan in America is a book I can't let go of for the same reason. Wilentz is a Bancroft Prize winning historian, but this work, transparently a labor of love, isn't just a popular history or a cultural biography of Dylan; like the ageless troubadour himself, it weaves unpredictably through his story, touching down where it will. Thus, Wilentz muses on the influence of the Beats and Aaron Copland, then waltzes us off to a 1964 Dylan concert at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Nothing about the Hibbing enigma seems beyond or beneath his reach: With equal interest, he reflects on Dylan's apocalypticism and faith changes and on the musician's appropriation of carnival traditions. Wilentz engages the Minnesota transplant as a near-contemporary, someone grappling with issues that he can understand. It made me understand Dylan, and myself, in new ways.

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contemporary,literary,literature and fiction, Martyrs' Crossing (Ballantine Reader's Circle), SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz knows the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction."-The New York Times Book Review"At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mother, clutches her ailing boy, desperate for access to Jerusalem and its doctors. When a young Israeli soldier waits too long before deciding to disobey orders, a martyr is born. Thus begins a graceful, painful, illuminating novel of the Middle East. . . . [Wilentz's] prose tugs at the reader. . . . The characters are magnetic. . . . [This] is a very human tale of regrets, revenge, and the elusive nature of absolution."-Entertainment Weekly"SO PRECISE, SO STARTLING, SO UNFORGETTABLE. . . . These characters are all pawns of history and politics, but Wilentz makes them live."-Los Angeles Times"MAGNIFICENT . . . Wilentz writes with a prose style reminiscent of The New Yorker's highest ambitions: crystalline, pure, faultlessly communicative. . . . Like the best documentaries, Martyrs' Crossing allows us unprecedented access to a little-understood and often misrepresented part of the world."-Chicago Tribune"A BRILLIANTLY RESEARCHED MEDIDATION ON THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST . . . Martyr's Crossing matches Damascus Gate in the quality of research and the mass of intriguing characters-an.

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Bob Dylan In America: One of America`s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country`s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan`s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz`s essays as `historian in residence` of Dylan`s official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity-a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz`s approach places Dylan`s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan`s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness. Bob Dylan in America-groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing-is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met. From the Hardcover edition. Englisch, Ebook.

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One of America's finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov-er.

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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’s official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness. Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met. From the Hardcover edition., Kindle Edition, Ausgabe: Reprint, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Anchor, Anchor, Produktgruppe: eBooks, Publiziert: 2010-09-07, Freigegeben: 2010-09-07, Studio: Anchor, Verkaufsrang: 252078.

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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’s official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness. Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met. From the Hardcover edition., Kindle Edition, Ausgabe: Reprint, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Anchor, Anchor, Produktgruppe: eBooks, Publiziert: 2010-09-07, Freigegeben: 2010-09-07, Studio: Anchor, Verkaufsrang: 343922.

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