4th of July, Asbury Park A History of the Promised Land

"Wonderfully evocative...a grand, sad story of racism and real estate, political hardball and seaside pleasure-seeking."A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review 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. Starting with the town's founding as a religious promised land, music journalist and poet Daniel Wolff plots a course through Asbury Park's 130 years of entwined social and musical history, in a story that captures all the allure and heartbreak of the American dream.Wolff, Daniel is the author of '4th of July, Asbury Park A History of the Promised Land', published 2006 under ISBN 9781596911147 and ISBN 159691114X.