Daniel Wolff

The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

Grown-Up Anger

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.

A History of the Promised Land

Fourth of July, Asbury Park

Michael Murphy

John Kinsella

Alex Stein

Judith Hermann

Yoram Kaniuk

Steven Heighton

Benjamin Paloff

Gary Fincke

Christopher Sorrentino

Ruth Curry

Marion Wyce

Jesse Goolsby

Renee Ashley

Cassie Hay

Joyce Hinnefeld

Sean McConnell

Geoffrey Nutter

Michael Copperman

Krzysztof Jaworski

Caleb Curtiss

Anthony Berris

Madeleine Beckman

Wendy Burk

Michela Costello

Margot Dembo

Suzanna Hopcroft

Tedi Mills

Anne McPeak

Drew Riley

Ryan Romine

Peter Shippy

William Zander

The Rogue Idea

Cliff White

G. David Tenenbaum

S. R. Crain

When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. This is the frank & sometimes shocking story of an American musical legend, & the changing times in which he lived & tragically died.

The Life and Times of Sam Cooke

You Send Me

Mixed poetry and prose by award-winning author, Daniel Wolff, about Haiti and the U.S. role there, including the return of President Aristede, the beauty of an impoverished culture, and the role of whiteness.

Ayiti

Bruce Springsteen

Eric Meola

"This special edition of Born to run: the unseen photographs is limited to 1,350 copies, specially bound, encased in a cloth clamshell case, and signed by Eric Meola; This is copy number 269."

The Unseen Photos

Born to Run

Daniel Wolff

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