Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing

By Robert Coles

Book Overview

In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impact... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375505598
• ISBN13: 9780375505591
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Springsteen Speaks to Us All

Well, I liked it. After years of listening to Bruce's music, if not paying sufficient attention to the lyrics, the book helps me grok his lyrics in ways that move me, occasionally to tears. My guess is that Coles' collection of impressions will resonant with everyman and everywoman, if not Springsteen fans who find themselves already there and academics who need...what? Some of the interviews do ramble. Yet, the ancients must have gathered and babbled long ago and will forevermore around story-tellers. I bet Coles' work will eventually be recognized as a significant contribution to helping us understand ourselves as Americans through this collection of tales from the trenches where ordinary people seek hope and love and voice....