crookedtimber.org - 1/19/2009
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Mike Kazin in an email (published with his permission):
Perhaps you gotta be steeped in left history to get excited by this or be Joe Klein—But the only time I broke down in tears watching the big concert today was when Pete Seeger, all 89 years of him, started singing the two ...
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Ben Smith's Blog —
... Michael Kazin points out that Pete Seeger's and Bruce Springsteen's performance of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," closing out the concert at the Lincoln Memorial, was probably its most political moment, for including the "two 'radical' verses of This Land Is Your Land that almost always get cut when the song is sung in public, or in countless elementary schools across the nation." ...
Achieving Our Country
Ross Douthat —
... aflutter
- by leading the crowd in a rendition of "This Land Is Your Land"), out
of the star-studded roster of performers, seemed to understand that the
thing to do when you have hundreds of thousands of freezing spectators
is to ham it way, way up, and to confine yourself to songs that make them ...
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