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A tour de push 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 unknown and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in 20th-century America - woven collectively in a single epic saga that holds meaning for everyone working Us citizens today. When 13-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan's "Such as a Rolling Natural stone", it ignited a lifelong interest in understanding the rock poet's anger. When he later learned "Track to Woody", Dylan's tribute to his hero, Woody Guthrie, Wolff assumed he'd uncovered one source of Dylan's trend. Sifting through Guthrie's recordings, Wolff found "1913 Massacre" - a track that told the storyline of any union Christmas party during a affect in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 that finished in horrific tragedy. Following the path from Dylan to Guthrie to a meeting that claimed the lives of 74 men, women, and children a century before, Wolff found himself tracing the annals of the anger that is passed down for decades. From America's early industrialized times, an epic struggle to determine the country's route has been waged, pitting bosses against staff and big business contrary to the labor movements. In Guthrie's eye the owners in the end won; the 1913 Michigan tragedy was just one example of a larger lost record purposely distorted and buried in time. In this wonderful cultural analysis, Wolff braids three disparate strands - Calumet, Guthrie, and Dylan - collectively to make a devastating revisionist record of 20th-century America. Grown-Up Anger chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labor relations had on industrial America, and just how two music artists used their fury to light up financial injustice and inspire change.
