Note: This is not a pink Cadillac
Posted on 07/23/2021 7:14:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama confirmed the publication of a book they’ve written together inspired by their Renegades podcast series.
Also titled Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the “collection of candid, intimate and entertaining conversations” arrives on Oct. 26. A short promo clip shows the pair testing a sports car together.
“Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work, about family and about America," the former president wrote in his introduction. “In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country that’s given us both so much. Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.”
You can watch a trailer for the book below.
Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen - Teaser Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on
“There were serious conversations about the fate of the country, the fortune of its citizens and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that would like to take it all down," Springsteen added. "This is a time of vigilance when who we are is being seriously tested. Hard conversations about who we are and who we want to become can perhaps serve as a small guiding map for some of our fellow citizens.”
In one episode of the podcast, the pair discussed how Springsteen’s classic song “Born in the U.S.A.” had been misused by people who didn't understood its meaning. “I think why the song has been appropriated: one is because it was so powerful; two is because its imagery was so fundamentally American," the singer said.
"But it did demand of you to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at one time: that you could both be very critical of your nation and very prideful of your nation simultaneously. And that is something that you see argued about to this very day.”
I have 8532 songs on my portable High Def audio player. Happy to report that not one song from this turd.
yuck to the title and throw up to the picture.
Jags like us, baby we were born to run...
You think Chris Christie will write the forward?
Nothing sadder than two old queens out cruising for guys.
Seriously?
Guess the publisher...
Crown/Penguin Random House/Bertelsmann.
Same bunch that just bought Prince Harry.
Eff them.both
I have more local stories about Bruce than you want to hear which at the time was/is all about local good times, hanging out around town and pride - he is now on another level and is either a pawn of or - an active participant of - these destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that he mentions.
I want to see the part
Where the two of them drive off the cliff!
““Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work...”
Yeah, something they both never did.
Bruce Bedspringsteen and Brrrrrrack OOOOH Mama
come on caraway-it’s fake news. No need to push our buttons.
Life is too short to waste it on lousy books and podcasts.
#2 on the best-sellers list.
There is nothing fundamentally American about a British subject/Kenyan national raised in Indonesia no matter where he was born.
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnNJv5yNZjE
Am I the only one who quits singin’ along
Every time they play a Springsteen song?
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