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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

ISBN: 9780062451705

Contributors: Wolff, Daniel (Author)

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2018

Binding: Paperback (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $19.99

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Description

<p>At thirteen, when he first heard Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Daniel Wolff recognized the sound of anger. When he later discovered "Song for Woody," Dylan's tribute to Guthrie, Wolff fixed on it as a clue to a distinctive mix of rage and compassion. That clue led back to Guthrie's "1913 Massacre"--a memorial song about the horrific conclusion to a union Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan.</p><p>Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to a tragedy that claimed seventy-four lives, Wolff found himself tracing a century-long line of anger. From America's early industrialized days up to the present, the battle over economic justice keeps resurfacing: on a freight car in California, on a joyride through New Orleans, in a snowy field in Michigan. At the stunning conclusion--as the mysteries of Dylan, Guthrie, and the 1913 tragedy connect--the reader discovers a larger story, purposely distorted and buried in time.</p><p>Daniel Wolff's <em>Grown-Up Anger</em> chronicles the struggles between the haves and the have-nots, the battle to organize American workers, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate injustice and spark hope.</p>

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