examines the early life and career of artist herg discussing the development of tintin influences on hergs work and the international popularity of the tintin series a patriot and a political radical woody guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs he was marked by the fbi as a subversive he lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his mother at fortytwo he was cruelly silenced by huntingtons disease ed cray the first biographer to be granted access to the woody guthrie archive has created a haunting portrait of an american who profoundly influenced pete seeger bob dylan bruce springsteen and american popular music itself