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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 interest in understanding the rock poet’s anger. When he later discovered "Song to Woody," Dylan’s tribute to his hero, Woody Guthrie, Wolff believed he’d uncovered one source of Dylan’s rage. Sifting through Guthrie’s recordings, Wolff found "1913 Massacre"—a song which told the story of a union Christmas party during a strike in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 that ended in horrific tragedy. Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. From America’s early industrialized days, an epic battle to determine the country’s direction has been waged, pitting bosses against workers and big business against the labor movement. In Guthrie’s eyes, the owners ultimately won; the 1913 Michigan tragedy was just one example of a larger lost history purposely distorted and buried in time. In this magnificent cultural study, Wolff braids three disparate strands—Calumet, Guthrie, and Dylan—together to create a devastating revisionist history of twentieth-century America. Grown-Up Anger chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labor relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change.

An odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities. Many arrived earlier and some migrated south and west, fanning out into their vast new country. They sought a renewed life, fresh prospects, and a safe harbor, despite a nation that was not always welcoming and not always tolerant. How to Become an American begins with a widow's abandoned diary—and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed, seemingly unremarkable Jewish family, and, in the process, makes their lives remarkable. It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre–Civil War Charleston, South Carolina, to post–World War II Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some ways, the family's journey parallels that of the nation, as it struggled to define itself through the Industrial Age. A persistent strain of loneliness permeates this story, and Wolff holds up this theme for contemplation. In a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants," where "all men are created equal," why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love?

Mixed poetry and prose by award-winning author, Daniel Wolff, about Haiti and the U.S. role there, including the return of President Aristede, the beauty of an impoverished culture, and the role of whiteness.

What do global combat and property ownership have to do with sex and sea turtles? According to Daniel Wolff-as it turns out, everything. More Poems about Money looks at the economic times we live in, from boom to bust, from the suburbs to the warzone, in a voice that ranges from humorous to desperate. Grappling with monetary value and how it infringes on self worth, Wolff asks simultaneously timeless and timely questions-Who has capital, who doesn't, and does that ever change?-in a style both humorous and unflinching, sparing not even himself. "'The market runs on credit," Wolff reminds us, "which romantics call yearning. / A flame. Or a sonnet." Yes, art also participates in capitalism as our lyrics stoke the fire of want, fueling this system and getting snuffed by it. Pivoting from the Great Recession toward today's crisis, this undaunted book illuminates the transactions we aren't supposed to talk about, beckoning us toward the future we can't imagine... yet.

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.

Zur Bewältigung der Herausforderungen von Globalisierung und Internationalisierung bedarf es zunehmend bi- und multilateraler Kooperationen. Zwischenstaatliche Kooperationen bergen allerdings auch beachtliches Gefährdungspotential für die davon betroffenen Individuen. Dieses Gefährdungspotential sowie die rechtlichen Wechselbeziehungen von grundgesetzlichem Grundrechtsschutz, der Verfassungsentscheidung für die offene Staatlichkeit und völker- bzw. unionsrechtlichen Vorgaben stellen die Grundrechtsdogmatik vor komplexe Herausforderungen. Sich diesen Herausforderungen annehmend erarbeitet Daniel Wolff eine allgemeine Grundrechtsdogmatik für Fallgestaltungen internationaler Zusammenarbeit und skizziert auf diese Weise grundgesetzliche Grenzen der zwischenstaatlichen Kooperation.

Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen geraten. Das Zeitregime der Moderne, das die Gesellschaft auf die Zukunft ausrichtete und die Vergangenheit vergessen ließ, ist nicht mehr. In der Spätmoderne spendet die Zukunft nicht mehr Hoffnung, sondern bereitet Sorge, und die Vergangenheit ist omnipräsent. Daniel Wolff argumentiert, dass dieser Zeitregimewechsel eine sich aus Geschichts- und Zukunftspolitik zusammensetzende Zeitpolitik hervorbringt, die er aus verfassungsrechtlicher Perspektive analysiert. Zum einen untersucht er, welche Rolle der Verfassung im Zusammenhang von Gedächtnisparadigma, Identitätsdiskurs und Geschichtspolitik zukommt, wie Lehren aus der Geschichte Eingang ins deutsche und israelische Verfassungsrecht gefunden haben und wie diese "Nie wieder"-Argumente normativ zu beurteilen sind. Zum anderen entwickelt er angesichts eines strukturellen Mangels an gesetzgeberischer Zukunftspolitik eine Verfassungsdogmatik der Zukunftssicherung.