This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story
of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic
images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of
America's heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published,
taken over five decades by some of the world's top photographers, follow
them from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the
most desired, beautiful, and charismatic performer and a new role model
for women. Follow the trio as they lead America to discover the
passionate soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality,
social justice, and freedom in this memorable journey, from the historic
1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., to the trio's
appearance before a half million people in 1969 to end the Vietnam War,
to their singing at the Hollywood Bowl for Survival Sunday in 1978,
helping to launch the anti-nuke movement, the world's first
international environmental movement.
Through these images, readers will feel and almost hear the trio's songs
calling for a more caring, better world as they performed with a courage
and conviction that became for so many the embodiment and soundtrack of
their generation's awakening to conscience, to activism, and to a new
dream for all of humankind. Peter, Paul, and Mary's songs of defiant
hope and a certain unmasked innocence are still a powerful part of our
American consciousness, and this book reenacts the history of how the
trio marked many lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort
we all yearn to recapture and recreate today--for ourselves, our
children, and the generations to come.
