Bound for glory--indeed!(Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)(Book review)

From: Monthly Review | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Ed Cray, Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 488 pages, cloth $29.95.

Ed Cray's new biography of Woody Guthrie marks another step in a growing interest in the left-wing Okie troubadour. In 1997, historian Charles J. Shindo published Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination, which includes analysis of Woody Guthrie's work along with that of John Ford and John Steinbeck. Joe Klein's enthusiastic biography of Guthrie, first published in 1980, was reissued in 1999, the year after Ed Cray began the new biography. Elizabeth ...

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