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2021 marks Bob Dylan's 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. Is he a song and dance man? A political hero? A protest singer? A self-portrait artist who has yet to paint…

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1 author picked Dylan at 80 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A timely anthology of 35 essays by an interestingly diverse array of contributors. A correspondingly diverse selection of aspects of the multi-dimensional Bob Dylan and his remarkable six-decade career is subjected to forensic scrutiny.

No Dylan book peaks beneath the cloak of so many of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic ‘song and dance man.’

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