Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger
has written eloquently in books and for magazines, activist
movements, and union newsletters. Although he has never written an
autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally chronicled
than in the private writings, documents, and letters stored for
decades in his family barn. In "Pete Seeger in His Own Words," we
hear directly from Seeger through the widest array of sources
letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts,
stories, and poetry creating the most intimate picture yet
available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man in
his own words and from his own perspective. From letters to his
mother written when he was a 13-year-old desiring his first banjo
to speculations on the future, this book covers the passions,
personalities, and experiences of a lifetime of struggle the
pre-WWII labor movement, the Communist Party, Woody Guthrie, the
blacklist, the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, the
struggle against the war in Vietnam, Bob Dylan, travels around the
world, cleaning up the Hudson River, Granny D, Fidel Castro, Bill
Clinton, and countless uncelebrated activists with whom Seeger has
worked and sung. The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a
martyr, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his
gift, his time, and his place. Click Here to listen to Pete
Seeger's interview on WNYC with Brian Lehrer "Hearing Pete Seeger,"
Alec Wilkinson's review for "The New Yorker" Culture Desk on Pete
Seeger's latest event in Bryant Park. An article by the New Haven
Register."
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