This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life of Woody Guthrie

This comprehensive biography examines the turbulent life of musician Woody Guthrie, who was born in a small town in Oklahoma and died in a state hospital in Queens, New York. Guthrie traveled throughout the country and wrote nearly a thousand folk songs about what he saw before succumbing to Huntington’s chorea, a debilitating disease he inherited from his mother. Illustrated with over seventy black-and-white photographs. Endnote and index.