Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer by Guthrie, Woody

Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452264458)

Author: Woody Guthrie
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer by Guthrie, Woody

Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer

$18.00
Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer by Guthrie, Woody

Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.

Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over--not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die.

"Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he's held after reading just a few pages... Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud... A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous."
--The Nation

Author: Woody Guthrie
ISBN-10: 0452264456
ISBN-13: 9780452264458
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1983
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.36w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/18/2004 pg. 91
By Woody Guthrie
By Woody Guthrie
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WOODY GUTHRIE (1912-1967) was a legendary American folk singer-songwriter. His songs told the stories of the American people: their land, their labors, their trials and their joys. While many of his songs were born of his experience in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, "Honeyky Hanukah" was part of a little-known series of songs he wrote celebrating Jewish culture, inspired by his mother in law, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-known Yiddish poet who lived across the street from him during his years in Coney Island, New York.

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