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View ArticleWoody Guthrie: Redder than Remembered
Will Kaufman, Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2011) 264 pages, $29.95, hardcover. Will Kaufman’s new book, Woody Guthrie, American Radical, describes how...
View ArticleUnearthing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Novel
In 1937 Woody Guthrie wrote a letter to his friend, the actor Eddie Albert, asking for a loan. He needed cash for a special project—around $300 for building materials. Guthrie had lately become fixated...
View ArticlePete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary
In the late 1950s, Pete Seeger received a letter from his manager, Howie Richmond, begging him to write a new hit song. … [Richmond] believed that “protest songs” were not marketable. Seeger was...
View ArticleWoody Guthrie: Redder than Remembered
Will Kaufman, Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2011) 264 pages, $29.95, hardcover. Will Kaufman’s new book, Woody Guthrie, American Radical, describes how...
View ArticleUnearthing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Novel
In 1937 Woody Guthrie wrote a letter to his friend, the actor Eddie Albert, asking for a loan. He needed cash for a special project—around $300 for building materials. Guthrie had lately become fixated...
View ArticlePete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary
In the late 1950s, Pete Seeger received a letter from his manager, Howie Richmond, begging him to write a new hit song. … [Richmond] believed that “protest songs” were not marketable. Seeger was...
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