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    Woody Guthrie: A Life

    April 18, 2016
    Too many biographies of music artists suffer from an over-reliance on quoted secondary sources, yielding books that don't feel "authored" because they lack a consistent narrative voice. I've put many such books aside in frustration over their prolific and unselective use of quotes that tend to vary wildly in tone, insight, and reliability.

    This book is different. It was published in 1980, when Woody (who died in 1967) would have been just 68, and most of the people who had known him well were still alive and happy to share their memories with the author. This is one of the great strengths of this book: in constructing his narrative, the author relies heavily on knowledge informed by—but not direct quotes from—these reminiscences. He does quote selectively, but he doesn't overload us with quoted material, and most of the quotes he includes are from letters written by Woody himself.

    Woody's life story is certainly book-worthy. The author of mo

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    Joe Klein

    American journalist (born 1946)

    For persons with similar names, see Joe Klein (disambiguation).

    Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein is currently[when?] a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.

    Early life and career

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    Klein was born in Rockaway Beach, Queens, the son of Miram (née Warshauer) and John Klein, a printer.[1] His maternal grandfather was professional musician Frank Warshauer.[2] He has r

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    Klein, Joseph 1946- (Joe Klein)

    PERSONAL:

    Born September 7, 1946, in New York; son of Malcolm (a printer) and Miriam Klein; married Janet Eklund, February 8, 1967 (divorced, 1975); children: Christopher, Terry. Education:University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1968.

    ADDRESSES:

    Agent—Kathy Robbins, The Robbins Office, 405 Park Ave., New York, fräsch 10022.

    CAREER:

    Writer and journalist. Beverly/Peabody Times, Beverly, MA, reporter, 1969-72; WGBH-TV, Boston, MA, reporter, 1972; Real Paper, Boston, news editor, 1972-74; Rolling Stone, New York City, associate editor, 1974-78, Washington bureau chief, 1974-76; Newsweek, Washington, DC, bureau, senior editor, until 1996, contributing editor, 1996; New Yorker, Washington correspondent, beginning 1996; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS-TV), Washington, DC, consultant and commentator, 1992-96; Cable News Network (CNN), political commentator and contributor, Paula Zahn Now, 2003—; Time, New York City, columnist. Notable assign

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