![]() As Andrew Cohen wrote in his appreciation, Seeger was often described as “anti-American”: ![]() Seeger’s political record-as a whole, not taken selectively-is exactly the point. And there are those, mostly on the right, who acknowledge Seeger’s importance and praise his less political songs while arguing, in essence, that his politics sadly tainted the rest of his career.īoth approaches offer serious problems. There are those, generally on the center-left, who praise Seeger heartily, accenting his stand against the House Un-American Activities Committee, while quietly-if at all-acknowledging his disturbingly durable devotion to Communism. To oversimplify, one can lump the political reactions to Seeger’s death on Monday at 94 into two groups. In death as in life, Pete Seeger brought Americans together, then divided them into warring ideological camps. Pete Seeger chats with Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry Wallace aboard a plane during a 1948 barnstorming tour. ![]()
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