Volume 28, Number 2 · February 19, 1981
The Curse of the Guthries
By Murray Kempton
Woody Guthrie: A Life
by Joe Klein
Knopf, 426 pp., $15.95
Bound for Glory
by Woody Guthrie
Signet, 320 pp., $1.95 (paper)
"Woody Guthrie, The Library of Congress Recordings"
recorded by Alan Lomax
Elektra Records, 271/272, $11.98
The genius of our politics is the art of distracting the resentments of a cheated middle class and letting them fall upon a worse-cheated lower class. And so we have the revolution of Woody Guthrie's dream: the Okies and their sons and daughters have elected a one-time California labor agitator president of the United States. This triumphant populist tribune is, of course, Mr. Reagan.
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