This Land Made For You and Me by Elizabeth Patridge

This Land Made For You and Me by Elizabeth Patridge

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 plight 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 spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an example for generations of musicians to come. But Woody didn't have the chance to find everything he was looking for. He was ravaged by Huntington's disease, just like his mother, and died in a mental institution at the age of fifty-five.

Award-winning author, Elizabeth Partridge has taken the life of this songwriting genius and woven in his lyrics, and other rich materials to create a touching and highly entertaining portrait of a true talent.

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ISBN 13	9780670035359
ISBN 10	0670035351
Title	This Land Made For You and Me
Author	Elizabeth Patridge
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Book
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2002-04-01
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2002, Winner of Children's Books of Distinction Awards (Nonfiction) 2003, Winner of Golden Kite (Nonfiction) 2002, Commended for National Book Awards (Young People's Lit.) 2002, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2004
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