Daniel J Wolff

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1) How Lincoln learned to read: twelve great Americans and the educations that made them

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Wolff, Daniel J

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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Wolff presents an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.

2) Grown-up anger: the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet massacre of 1913

Author

Wolff, Daniel J

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

c2017.

Language

English

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A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America-woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today. When thirteen-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," it ignited a life-long...