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Fourth of July, Asbury Park : a history of the promised land
- Title
- Fourth of July, Asbury Park : a history of the promised land / Daniel Wolff.
- Author
- Wolff, Daniel J.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- ix, 197 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Bruce Springsteen brought international attention to the Jersey shore by naming his debut album 'Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ.' But the real Asbury Park has an even more fascinating story behind it: a seaside city of dreams that became a magnet for both the best and worst of America, playing host to John Philip Sousa, Count Basie, and Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as the mob and the Ku Klux Klan. Fourth of July, Asbury Park tells the tale of the city's first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, as well as the decay of its working-class neighborhoods and spread of its racially-segregated ghettos. Featuring exclusive interviews with Springsteen and other prominent Asbury Park residents, Daniel Wolff uncovers the history of how this Jersey shore resort town came to epitomize both the promises of the American dream and the tragic consequences when those promises are broken. Hailed by The New York Times as a "wonderfully evocative...grand, sad story" when first published in 2006, this revised and expanded edition considers how Asbury Park has changed in the twenty-first century, experiencing both gentrification and new forms of segregation"--
- Alternative Title
- 4th of July, Asbury Park
- Subject
- Arts > New Jersey > Asbury Park > History
- Rock music > New Jersey > Asbury Park > History and criticism
- Rock groups > New Jersey > Asbury Park > History
- Arts
- Intellectual life
- Rock groups
- Rock music
- Social conditions
- Asbury Park (N.J.) > Social conditions
- Asbury Park (N.J.) > History
- Asbury Park (N.J.) > Intellectual life
- New Jersey > Asbury Park
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2253
- ISBN
- 9781978820401
- 1978820402
- LCCN
- 2021008404
- OCLC
- 1240265225
- Author
- Wolff, Daniel J., author.
- Title
- Fourth of July, Asbury Park : a history of the promised land / Daniel Wolff.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2253