Ramblin′ Man – The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie - Softcover

Cray, Ed; Terkel, Studs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393327361 ISBN 13: 9780393327366

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his mother. At forty-two, he was cruelly silenced by Huntington's disease. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody Guthrie Archive, has created a haunting portrait of an American who profoundly influenced Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American popular music itself.

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Review:

A welcome and important work.--Robert Santelli

About the Author:

Ed Cray (1933-2019), "a meticulous craftsman of American biography" (Douglas Brinkley), was a professor at the University of Southern California. Born in 1912, Studs Terkel is the bestselling author of twelve books of oral history, including Working, Hard Times, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Good War" (all available from The New Press). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential National Humanities Medal and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393327361
• ISBN 13: 9780393327366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512