I thoroughly enjoyed this book, partly because I knew nothing about the topic except what I’d seen in the Oscar-nominated film based on the book, ‘A Complete Unknown.’ The book is as much about the peak of American interest in folk music in the late 1950s and early 1960s as it is about Bob Dylan. Wald reviews the rise of the American artists whose music expressed a worldview that celebrated “the people” around the globe, their respect for the past *and* their invention. The author makes clear that young Dylan was always going to be an iconoclast; just because the folkies were his earliest influences did not mean he had any kind of debt or loyalty to them. Despite the title, Dylan was never *not* electric; his legendary performance at the Newport Folk Festival rode the wave of a youth movement that just had different—more cynical? more mystical—interests then their folk precursors. Fascinating look at how culture changes and how individual artists fit into that larger revolution.