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"Starting with an approving nod to the absence of androgyny in Bruce’s image. All of which clarified Will’s vision of Bruce as a “wholesome cultural portent” whose own rags- to- riches story proved the conservative belief that no amount of socioeconomic privation could stand in the way of hard, honest, nonunionized work. That Bruce’s extraordinary success was a result of otherworldly talents unavailable to virtually everyone else on the planet did not occur to Will"

"The situation grew even more complicated a week later, when Reagan made a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey, and ingratiated himself to the southern Jersey crowd by declaring that “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about.” 

"The Democratic nominee for president, former vice president Walter Mondale, took advantage of Reagan’s political overstep by declaring that Bruce “may have been born to run, but he wasn’t born yesterday.”