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A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger, and his life and his accomplishments. Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look at Seeger's unique blend of independence and commitment, charm, courage, energy, and belief in human equality and American democracy. We see Seeger, the child, instilled with a love of music by his parents; Seeger, the teenager, hearing real folk music for the first time; Seeger, the young adult, singing with Woody Guthrie. And finally, Seeger the man marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, standing up to McCarthyism, and fighting for his beloved Hudson River. The gigantic life captured in this slender volume is truly an American anthem.

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• Full title: PROTEST SINGER
• Author: Alec Wilkinson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151
• EAN: 9780307390981
• ISBN: 9780307390981
• ID: 06542427
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 204 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. June 2010

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