{"product_id":"rose-the-briar-death-love-and-liberty-in-the-american-ballad-9780393328257","title":"Rose \u0026 the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as \"a classic \u0026amp; a ticket to ride,\" The Rose \u0026amp; the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen other novelists, essayists, performers, and critics; to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad. From \"Barbara Allen\" through \"The Wreck of the Old 97\" to contemporary ballads by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, The Rose \u0026amp; the Briar is, as Geoffrey O'Brien hailed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, \"a book full of internal echoes and provocative coincidences,\" featuring \"historical investigation, shamanistic trance-journey, memoir, novella and cartoon,\" where \"names and costumes change, soldiers become cowboys, demon lovers become backwoods murderer; the voices are unmistakably distinct but they share a common ground.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcus, Greil:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Greil Marcus is the author of \u003ci\u003eLike a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, Lipstick Traces, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMystery Train\u003c\/i\u003e. An Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University in 2002, he lives in Berkeley, California.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilentz, Sean:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSean Wilentz\u003c\/strong\u003e is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Rise of American Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBob Dylan in America\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other works. He is completing his next book, \u003cem\u003eNo Property in Man\u003c\/em\u003e, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514110284050,"sku":"9780393328257","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66d93f03-91c9-43a5-9c40-43c0a1736121.jpg?v=1730973430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rose-the-briar-death-love-and-liberty-in-the-american-ballad-9780393328257","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}