Bob Dylan In America

By Sean Wilentz

Book Overview

A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 - and its musical, political and cultural roots in early 20th-century America

Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a distinguished professor of American history, he revisits Dylan's work with the critical skills of a scholar and the passion of a fan.

Drawing partly on his work as the current historian-in-residence on Dylan's official website, Sean Wilentz provides a unique blend of biography, memoir and analysis in a book which, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion demands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099549298
• ISBN13: 9780099549291
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"