Daniel Wolff, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58234-509-3
In attempting to blend the social and musical history of New Jersey's faded seaside resort Asbury Park—where Bruce Springsteen first made his name in the 1970s—Wolff has an overabundance of engrossing material that never quite...
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Daniel Wolff, Author . Bloomsbury $26 (345p) ISBN 978-1-59691-290-8
This extended essay, in the form of a dozen entertaining profiles of great Americans—an unexpected cross-section, from Ben Franklin to Elvis Presley—provides an unusual look at the varieties of educational experience that shaped these
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Daniel Wolff. Harper, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-245169-9
In this bold and moving history, author and songwriter Wolff follows a path of memory and resistance through the labor struggles and music of 20th-century America. Wolff argues here that the mass murder of 74 men, women, and children (mine workers...
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Daniel Wolff, Author, Clifton White, With, G. David Tenenbaum, With William Morrow & Company $23 (424p) ISBN 978-0-688-12403-8
An important contribution to the history of pop music in mid-century, this work by freelance journalist Wolff in collaboration with singer Craine, guitarist and bandleader White and music researcher Tenenbaum follows the career of Sam Cooke (born...
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Daniel Wolff. Bloomsbury, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60819-479-7
The destruction left by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is only the starting point for the social drama that unfolds in Wolff’s (How Lincoln Learned to Read) grassroots-oriented investigation of the rebuilding of New Orleans’ most underprivileged and...
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