PROTEST SINGER, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　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.

　　Alec Wilkinson began writing for The New Yorker in 1980.
Before that, he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and
before that a rock-and-roll musician. He has published eight other
books—two memoirs, two collections of essays, two biographical
portraits, and two pieces of reporting. His honors include a
Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Prize, and a Robert F. Kennedy
Book Award. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.

　　”A beautiful, honest portrait.”–Los Angeles Times
　　
　　”A slim, lucid volume . . .  packs in all the key twists and
turns in Seeger’s very full life.”–Boston Globe
　　
　　”Wilkinson has done a magnificent job of creating a picture of a
virtuous and principled man.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune
　　
　　”In prose as unassuming as his subject, Wilkinson captures
Seeger’s unpretentious, down-to-earth manner.”–San Francisco
Chronicle
　　
　　”In crisp, elegant prose, Wilkinson outlines Seeger’s early life,
his family’s influence upon his work, his activism for peace, civil
rights and the environment, and his friendships with other legends
such as Woody Guthrie.”–Dallas Morning News
　　
　　”A quick read that is both pithy and entertaining.”–Christian
Science Monitor
　　
　　“Wilkinson’s biography reads as lucidly as if we were there with
him, listening to Seeger’s history as he boils maple sap down to
syrup and chops his daily quota of firewood.”—Publishers
Weekly
　　
　　”[Wilkinson] draws a picture of the folk singer not only by
summoning up his history, public and private, but by giving us the
man observed, in small swatches of manner and
conversation.”–Newsday
　　
　　“Unmistakably affectionate.”—Booklist