“A cleareyed overview of the modern interaction of culture and politics.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election was a relief to many Americans, and here, Goldberg sheds light on the power of the media and the role it played in such an outcome. The book features interviews with an array of celebrities, as well as research and analysis to demonstrate how entertainers and art itself helped empower America to vote our former president out of office.”
—Alta

“The former personal manager for artists including Nirvana and Bonnie Raitt interviewed some of the most well-known performers who raised their voices against the former president—including Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Rosanne Cash, among others—for his recently released book, Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump.”
—The Hill

“From working as Led Zeppelin’s publicist to managing Nirvana, Danny Goldberg is a fine analyst of the places where popular and political culture meets. In this engaging read, he looks critically at the role that artists and entertainers played in resisting Trump and Trumpism during the 2020 election campaign.”
—Vancouver Sun

“Goldberg’s focus is on people who enjoyed a mass audience, not fringe artists, and his theme is that politics flows downhill from culture—not the other way around. It’s a lesson that Democratic politicos fail to learn at their peril.”
—Shepherd Express

“Bloody Crossroads 2020 is a riveting and thoughtful tour of the role artists played in resisting the horrors of the Trump presidency. Danny Goldberg provides a bracing and thorough recollection that is both a service and a reminder for artists to stay engaged and awake. To counter those who continually tell me to ‘shut up and sing,’ I will buy a couple of crates of this book and get my marching boots polished. Thank you, Danny, for reminding me how it went down, and where it might go.”
—Rosanne Cash

“The people who produce our popular culture—the performers and makers of TV shows and movies and music and the rest—are nearly all on the political left. (Which drives the right crazy; crazier.) Danny Goldberg—impresario, activist, mensch—knowingly and passionately chronicles how and why more of his fellow culture-makers than ever enlisted in the fight to save American democracy in 2020. Our annus horribilis had a political happy ending, and Bloody Crossroads 2020 is its star-studded souvenir program.”
—Kurt Andersen, author of Evil Geniuses and Fantasyland

“Music and politics have been the twin engines driving Danny Goldberg for decades. In his latest work he explores how these culture-defining machines left a wannabe king in the dust.”
—Nelson George, author of Hip Hop America

“Danny Goldberg has spent his career navigating the ‘bloody crossroads’ of culture and politics. He has applied that experience and insight to produce this panoramic portrait of how popular culture, from movies to music to television, responded to the unprecedented provocations and polarization of Donald Trump’s presidency. This is an indispensable and urgent document for anyone trying to understand the collision between Trump’s vision of restoring a fading social and racial order and the artists in every field who are forging a new American identity through their works.”
—Ronald Brownstein, author of Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics

“I didn’t think there was a place in politics for people in show business until I read Bloody Crossroads 2020.”
—Al Franken

Critical praise for In Search of the Lost Chord:

“A legendary steward of the hip musical world . . . Goldberg plunges into a thorough, panoramic account of the culture, politics, media, music and mores of the year to demolish the idea that it was trivial . . . Goldberg’s deep purchase on his subject and his storytelling ease make it fresh.”
—Sheila Weller, New York Times Book Review

“[Goldberg’s] newest book, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, explores and fuses together the musical, political and spiritual revolutions of the time into a narrative about a moment when ‘there was an instant sense of tribal intimacy one could have even with a stranger.’”
—Rolling Stone

“Goldberg brings a personal passion that itself illustrates the lasting resonance of the hippie era.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Danny Goldberg’s In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea resonates with today’s activist readers . . . Goldberg uses the afterword to bounce these ideas off our current political landscape and it’s quite revelatory. That same chord that was ringing in the ears of some of those hippies of 1967 is now ringing in the ears of those with their boots on the ground in their own respective resistance movements today.”
—PopMatters

“A reminiscence of the time that brought us Sgt. Pepper and the Summer of Love . . . [A] genial you-were-there memoir of a golden age.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Written with the acuity of someone who lived through the times he writes about, this is a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration not just of one year in history but also of a culture and a way of thinking that continues to reverberate today.”
—Booklist

“[Goldberg’s] analysis of what it meant to be a hippie in 1967—sans cartoon clichés—recounts the pursuit of wisdom and joy, as well as a crazy quilt of counterculture cool. And despite the demarcation insisted on by some, he shows that spirituality, activism and business are not incompatible.”
—High Times