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.