Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/24/dylan-and-woody-goin-down-the-road-feelin-bad/
Date Written:  2017-07-24
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX21062

Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'

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As Wolff's narrative unfolds, the reader finds themselves deep in a history rich in struggle. The struggle is between the rich and the poor; the working class and the ruling class; the street and the entertainment business. The protagonists include benevolent robber barons who paid reasonable wages and provided health care and education to the workers and their families; greedy owners who acted as if their riches were the result of their blessedness and hard work when in all honesty the hard work was that of their employees and the blessedness was nonexistent. No matter what their approach, though, when the profits were down or the workers rose up, every capitalist called in the strikebreakers and men with weapons. In short, it is the story of industrial capitalism in the USA. It is a story often told, but rarely taught. Never has it been relayed in the manner the reader discovers in Grown Up Anger.