Washington Diarist | The New Republic
Leon Wieseltier labels The Boss thusly in the above-linked article. This is of course incorrect. Bruce Springsteen is "Studs Terkel with a guitar." He was the prominent Chicago journalist and radioman, and prolific compiler of hard luck stories for book publication. For him the year was forever 1930, just as for modern radicals the year is forever 1968, and for Springsteen it is forever the recession year of 1974.
