The famed US satirist recently released decades of his work for reuse free of copyright.
- Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Lancashire
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In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie lived in one of Fred Trump’s buildings. In newly discovered, never before published writings, Guthrie bitterly rails against the developer’s color line.
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