A History of the Promised Land
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American Dream
American Dream promises
American life
American social history
American values
amusement park
amusement parks history
Asbury Park
Asbury Park history
Asbury Part Race Riots
Atlantic coast cities
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boardwalk town
boom towns
Bruce Springsteen
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Count Basie
DANIEL WOLFF
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
economic inequality
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Fourth of July
Frank Sinatra
gentrification
gentrification and displacement
Greetings from Asbury Park
Jersey Shore culture
July 1970
Ku Klux Klan in the North
mob influence
music and cultural heritage
music history
New Jersey
New Jersey tourism
NJ
political corruption
protest
racial issues
racial segregation in New Jersey
racial tensions
resort town
seaside
seaside resort towns
small town
Stone Pony
The Promise Land
twentieth-century urban history
urban decline and renewal
urban redevelopment
urban renewal
working-class
working-class neighborhoods
Product details
- ISBN 9781978820401
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
DANIEL WOLFF is a Grammy-nominated non-fiction author and poet who has written a half-dozen books on American history and culture, from an award-winning biography of Sam Cooke to a best-selling dual biography of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. He also collaborated with photographer Eric Meola on Born to Run: The Unseen Photos. He resides in Nyack, New York.
