American History

SONG TO WOODY

“Intimacy” seems an odd way for a biographer to label the lens through which he views his subject. But by drilling deeply into Guthrie’s writings, Haverford College Professor Gustavus Stadler shows how power-fully intimacy shaped this iconic folksinger’s art and politics.

Intimacy was everything for him. The intimacy of tenderness and trauma made life heaven and hell. It was how the body felt when struck by disease

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