Rooted in a sort of received wisdom of American folklore, my youthful
image of Guthrie was not unfounded; Stadler dutifully cites and praises
the many biographers and critics who came before him. What keeps the
book from being merely another entry in a timeworn biographical
tradition is that it is an expansive and strikingly unique portrait of a
man, not of an immortal legend./An Intimate Life/privileges the
messiness of character and circumstance, tying together the many
Guthries collected under the proper name and placing them in the context
of broader social and institutional movements. And here we find the most
rewarding and unanticipated delights of the biography: at various
stages, one could be forgiven for forgetting that Woody Guthrie was a
musician at all.
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