We Take Care of Our Own

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JUNE SKINNER SAWYERS was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and has written and lectured extensively on Bruce Springsteen. Her Springsteen books include Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader, Tougher than the Rest: 100 Best Bruce Springsteen Songs, and, with Jonathan D. Cohen, Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Her other books include Celtic Music, Read the Beatles, 10 Songs That Changed the World, Cabaret FAQ, and Bob Dylan’s New York. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the TLS, among other publications. In addition, she in an associate producer of Voices over the Water, a documentary on the Scottish diaspora.
ANDRE DUBUS III is the author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and the memoir Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice."

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We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen’s beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer’s life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and non-musical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America; indeed for working class life throughout the world.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Shadow of Plenty
1 Workingman
2 A Sense of Place
3 Chapter and Verse
4 The Good Book
5 The Populist Imperative
6 Hope and Dreams
7 Left Behind
8 An Absence of Things
9 Jersey Cowboys
10 Tomorrows and Yesterdays
Coda: Far Beyond Today
Afterword by Andre Dubus III
Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustrations
Index