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henrismum's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.25
Take away: Three stories, decades apart, woven into a historical narrative about labor with music in the background. This book was much different than I expected, but very engaging. It fits into my research on labor unions, and gave me insight into Guthrie and Dylan as well. At the heart of the book is the sad, sad story of those who died at a Christmas party because anti-union thugs yelled "fire" in a crowded hall.
Narration: Dennis Boutsikaris - a wonderfully engaging voice. I must have listened to him previously.
Normal Speed- Accelerated Speed
New - Second - Third - Committed
Series - Non Series - Non-Fiction - Author
Listening to this book was a chore.
I'm glad I listened to this book.
I didn't want this book to end.
I could not wait to be done with this book.
Average, but better than anything I've written.
Narration: Dennis Boutsikaris - a wonderfully engaging voice. I must have listened to him previously.
Normal Speed
Series - Non Series -
Listening to this book was a chore.
I'm glad I listened to this book.
I could not wait to be done with this book.
Average, but better than anything I've written.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
timhoiland's review against another edition
4.0
This is a book about Bob Dylan – you know, your favorite band’s favorite singer-songwriter – and Woody Guthrie, the folk singer a young Dylan set out to emulate. The book is also about the tragic (and quite likely sinister) death of 73 people in the small mining town of Calumet, Michigan in 1913.
The chapters about Dylan are fascinating, as are the chapters about Guthrie. And the chapters about the lives of miners in the late 1800s and early 1900s constitute a heartbreaking education. But I’m not sure what to make just yet of Wolff’s claim that the Calumet tragedy is a secret key that unlocks the political anger in the music of Guthrie and Dylan.
Grown-Up Anger is a weird book that doesn’t all add up for me. But I will say this: I haven’t wanted to put it down.
The chapters about Dylan are fascinating, as are the chapters about Guthrie. And the chapters about the lives of miners in the late 1800s and early 1900s constitute a heartbreaking education. But I’m not sure what to make just yet of Wolff’s claim that the Calumet tragedy is a secret key that unlocks the political anger in the music of Guthrie and Dylan.
Grown-Up Anger is a weird book that doesn’t all add up for me. But I will say this: I haven’t wanted to put it down.
runningreader's review against another edition
4.0
A little torn on this one. Fascinated by the subject but it has some lofty goals that I’m not entirely sure it achieved. Nonetheless it was well-researched and I enjoyed exploring the connections between the topics.
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