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“This Land Is Your Land”: The Story Behind America’s Best-Known Protest Song
It has been a staple of kindergarten classrooms for decades. But Woody Guthrie didn’t intend for the song to be a ringing endorsement of American exceptionalism—he wrote it for those who were getting left behind.