'Envy may be a sin, but it is a godsend to drama. Honest and always hilarious'

'Fantastic, very funny. The best sort of book about rock, being both personal and intimate ... illuminating a dozen big subjects by side-light'

A poignant story, well worth reading

Well-written and insightful ... a rare, unmissable memoir

Real power … compelling reading … his book often has the intensity of a thriller

Sharp, touching and genuinely inspiring

An honest, engrossing and uplifting read

Funny, touching, inspiring and told in such a way that it becomes impossible to resist

Sean Wilentz's beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America

Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research

Writing about Bob Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours

It throws up a wealth of unexpected connections.

Did you know Bob Dylan loves Eileen Aroon? One of the many facts in Bob Dylan in America.

The result is a broad and brilliantly illuminating appreciation of Dylan as both performer and songwriter up to the present day

Full of anecdotal gifts you will never forget... Ephron reflects on the early days of her career-memories of her time working as a mail girl at Newsweek and writing for Esquire-while taking every opportunity to get real about her life at the time she was penning this memoir.