This Land Was Made for You and Me The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

Name: This Land Was Made for You and Me The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
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ISBN: 9780670035359

ISBN-10: 0670035351

ISBN-13: 9780670035359

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elizabeth Partridge

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Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody took his inspiration from the plights of the people around him as well as from his own tragic childhood. From the late 1920s to the 1950s, Guthrie wrote the words to more than three thousand songs-including "This Land is Your Land," a song many call America's unofficial national anthem. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046

Elizabeth Partridge is the author of This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie , winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and other acclaimed works. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay area.