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Grown-up Anger
- The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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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 20th-century America - woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
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Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of 74 men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. From America's early industrialized days, an epic battle to determine the country's direction has been waged, pitting bosses against workers and big business against the labor movement. In Guthrie's eyes the owners ultimately won; the 1913 Michigan tragedy was just one example of a larger lost history purposely distorted and buried in time.
In this magnificent cultural study, Wolff braids three disparate strands - Calumet, Guthrie, and Dylan - together to create a devastating revisionist history of 20th-century America. Grown-Up Anger chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labor relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change.
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- By Sonny Garcia on 01-02-24
By: Daniel De Visé
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Outlaw
- Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
- By: Michael Streissguth
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever. Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.
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Revealing little-known Details does Captivate!
- By Cody Meyer on 11-20-17
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- By: Robert Gordon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.
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Great narration
- By A. K. Moore on 10-29-14
By: Robert Gordon
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Smoketown
- By: Mark Whitaker
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Mark Whitaker's Smoketown is a captivating portrait of this unsung community and a vital addition to the story of black America. It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how they were shaped by its schools and a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age; and how their world was eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. Whitaker takes listeners on a rousing, revelatory journey - and offers a timely reminder that Black History is not all bleak.
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Hopes for Pittsburgh aka "Up South"
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By: Mark Whitaker
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My Song
- A Memoir
- By: Harry Belafonte, Michael Shnayerson
- Narrated by: Harry Belafonte, Mirron Willis
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
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Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.
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Amazing
- By Khafre on 12-30-11
By: Harry Belafonte, and others
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Once in a Great City
- A Detroit Story
- By: David Maraniss
- Narrated by: David Maraniss
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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It's 1963, and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America. It was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Walter Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts.
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Great read
- By Jordanel on 01-02-16
By: David Maraniss
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Cowboys and Indies
- The Epic History of the Record Industry
- By: Gareth Murphy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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Cowboys and Indies is the definitive record-business bible, chronicling the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labelsand musical discoveries of the last century. The narrative follows all the musical trends and developments from the phonograph to the Internet age as it delves behind the big business of corporate hit machines and the diligent industry of small, curated labels.
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Epic, yet incomplete.
- By Rob G. on 10-14-14
By: Gareth Murphy
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- By: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
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Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the 20th century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers.
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The definitive bio of Monk
- By ricardo on 12-27-17
By: Robin DG Kelley
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Harlem
- The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America
- By: Jonathan Gill
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
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Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.
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Very Interesting.
- By Joyce Mirowski on 06-05-20
By: Jonathan Gill
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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- By: Nathan Miller
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
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Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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My High School History Class Never Told
- By Charles Stembridge on 06-29-04
By: Nathan Miller
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The Ballad of Bob Dylan
- A Portrait
- By: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th-century - a man widely regarded as the most important lyricist America has ever produced. Acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein frames Dylan against the backdrop of four seminal concerts - all of which he attended. Beautifully written, The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a unique, eye-opening portrait of an artist who has transformed generations and continues to inspire and surprise today.
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Excellent book, excellent narration
- By L chandler on 12-22-11
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1959
- The Year Everything Changed
- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the 60s as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed.
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Facinating look at a neglected moment in history
- By James on 05-25-11
By: Fred Kaplan
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We Don't Know Ourselves
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- By: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
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In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society - perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism.
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Relentlessly Negative
- By John on 06-02-22
By: Fintan O'Toole
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The History of Rock & Roll
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- By: Ed Ward
- Narrated by: David Colacci
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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Author's blindspots mar this book
- By Mark Clark on 03-28-17
By: Ed Ward
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- John Cashman
- 05-19-20
Wonderful book
This is a nicely written and well researched history of a sadly neglected event, the 1913 Massacre. It does a good job of connecting the dots from Calumet to Guthrie to Dylan.
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- Jackie
- 06-21-17
Grown up anger
It holds and keeps your interest through out the book. It combines history with two very interesting bios.
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- Buretto
- 07-09-17
Seeking the truth.... maybe.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I would have liked for the the story to have been more interwoven (if it had actually been, that is). As it was, there were three distinct stories, Dylan, Guthrie and the Calumet Massacre. While it finally attempted to tie everything together near the end, the thread of organized labor history wore a bit thin at times.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Grown-up Anger?
The Calumet Massacre, and the subsequent stories about the cause, and the revisions, and the revisions of the revision, gave a sobering example of the larger struggle of organized labor.
On the other hand, the (nearly) verbatim recitations of Dylan lyrics, seemed a bit overdone. Even as I am a huge fan of Dylan's music, the author's style of mixing between quotes and summary was tiresome, and seemed only to assert the his Dylan bona fides, and to fill pages (and audiobook time).
What does Dennis Boutsikaris bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He gave a good reading, with seemingly appropriate intonation. However, the times he read "....maybe", while accurately expressed, became a bit irritating. But that's down to the author.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
I'm not sure there's enough "there" there, for a movie. Certainly all three subjects are deserving, and have been covered to varying degrees. I'm sure a film focusing on the 1913 Calumet Massacre could rely heavily on a Guthrie/Dylan soundtrack, though. And I would go to see it.
Any additional comments?
Though a lot of my comments seem negative, I actually did enjoy the the book. The negative points (.... maybe.) became irritants, but once it became clear that there really wasn't all that much of a connection, and most the "mysteries" were just of the "Bob being Bob" variety, I could enjoy each part individually.
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- Aaron
- 06-19-17
Connects the Dots
Beautifully told story of AmericA & it's favorite sons as they exist from above; to the ground on down.
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- 10-04-17
Fascinating account
Fascinating weaving together of the story of American copper miners, Woody Guthrie's life and the early career of Bov Dylan.
Gave me an entirely new perspective to appreciate Woody Guthrie's lyrics from, and had me listening to Dylan's "Song to Woody" on repeat for days...
After setting the context of North American labour unions, Guthrie's struggles and Dylan's ambitions the chapter analysing the lyrics of "Like A Rolling Stone" alone makes the entire book worth purchasing and reading.
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- 07-13-17
Hypocritical
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No. The author has an obvious disdain for for both men, it shows through clearly. With part fact, part fiction, lies, and a very hypocritical starch shirt interpretation. It is however amusing that in the same sentence of being critical about the singers interpretations, he uses his own far flung interpretations.
What do you think your next listen will be?
A better book, with FACTS, about Dylan and or Guthrie.
Which scene was your favorite?
It is hard to have a favorite, I couldn't tell the difference between fact and fiction. The whole book was a joke.
Was Grown-up Anger worth the listening time?
No!!!
Any additional comments?
Be very careful of what you listen to, and what you take as truth. The author took way too many liberties, while contradicting both singers for their own. A complete joke and a waste of time.
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