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HAVING released a joint podcast earlier this year, US music superstar Bruce Springsteen and former president Barack Obama have just published those conversations as a book — Renegades: Born In The USA.
The podcast was hugely popular and no doubt the book will be a bestseller this Christmas and beyond.
As a Springsteen fan, I’m very uneasy about this partnership.
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