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Blood Brothers? Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama
First a joint podcast, now a book — why is the American cultural icon whose music speaks to the plight of the working class allowing himself to be so closely asscociated with a centrist Democrat soaked in the blood of military aggression, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Bruce Springsteen performs during the Invictus Games Closing Ceremony

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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