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Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader Paperback - 2004

by June Skinner Sawyers (Editor); Foreword by Martin Scorsese

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A must-have book for all Springsteen fans--a career-spanning selection of writings about "The Boss." This is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings.

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For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.

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For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen's ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-'n'-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen's career. It's all here--Dave Marsh's Rolling Stone review of Springsteen's ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks's and Maureen Orth's dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will's gross misinterpretation of Springsteen's message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy's 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.

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Of all the figures to perform in the rock and roll arena, few have had as remarkable, or as paradoxical, a career as Bruce Springsteen.

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  • Title Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader
  • Author June Skinner Sawyers (Editor); Foreword by Martin Scorsese
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2004-04-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780142003541 / 0142003549
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.56 x 0.99 in (21.44 x 14.12 x 2.51 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - United States, Springsteen, Bruce
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003062414
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 02/15/2004, Page 1017
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2004, Page 90
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/05/2004, Page 54

About the author

June Skinner Sawyers is an editor and journalist who writes frequently about music and the arts. She is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, for which she wrote a nightlife column for two years, and is the editor of several literary anthologies.

Martin Scorsese entered a seminary in 1956, but then opted to channel his passions into film. He is the acclaimed director of such classic films as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas.

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