| Description |
xiv, 695 pages 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-624) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Class, tribe, and city -- Fraternity and the myths of identity -- Fraternity and modern politics -- The ambiguous ideal: fraternity in America -- Puritanism: the covenant of fraternity -- John Winthrop: the statesman -- The fruits of the Earth: Cain in New England -- The American Enlightenment -- The Jeffersonians -- The divided house -- Emerson and Thoreau: the all and the one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: the citizen -- Herman Melville: the pilgrim -- The Gilded Age -- Whitman and Bellamy: nations of lovers -- Mark Twain: the teacher -- Old Americans and new -- Generations of the Lost -- Fearlessness and fear: the New Deal and after -- Native sons -- Epilogue: A note on generation and regeneration. |
| Summary |
A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh." |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life.
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Brotherliness.
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
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Folk music.
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Singers.
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Brotherliness. (OCoLC)fst00839657
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
0520016505 |
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9780520016507 |
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