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This Land that I Love the gumazing gum girl!February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn, "God Bless America." Woody Guthrie was having none of it. Near starving and penniless, he was traveling from Texas to New York to

and deliciously unique

Many of the tools he used so consistently and gracefully came from what was inside him for a very long time -- his deep passion for life

He's flat broke

and social acceptance as she fought to climb the social ladder and take her place in London society

or tightening of the skin and attacks the heart

he was a combat hero and invented the use of helicopters in warfare

unkempt bush and baths were infrequent

He traces the rise and controversial fall of employer-mandated IQ tests

Through chapters on empathy

Suzy falls into a drug-trafficking scheme that clashes perilously with the skyjacking epidemic of the day

" is playing at the top of his game

They set out to conquer the world