By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls “Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. The classic of the genre and arguably what made Guthrie’s career possible. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People: American folk songs of the Depression and the labor movement of the 1930's by Alan Lomax This tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage.
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