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The part David Geffen's mother played in his life is described by Margot Thomas, Lorne Michaels and others.

See and hear Carl Sandburg read "Arches": an excerpt from The Day Carl Sandburg Died.

From Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories: The story of two skyscrapers, a tin brass goose and a tin brass goat, a long distance train, and the Northwest Wind.

Pete Seeger brought the song "We Shall Overcome" to the forefront of causes for American workers in the 1940s and later to the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s. As a singer and songwriter, his songs have always been about we, the people. ...

Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag: songs he collected traveling a country that was as pretty as it was hard.

An exploration of the Carl Sandburg Archive from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

The late and great Studs Terkel, author of Hard Times, Working, and The Good War, and his last thoughts on Carl Sandburg and the America Terkel documented and recorded his whole life. "I also say, 'The People, Yes,'" Terkel says, referring to the 300 page ...

Follow Carl Sandburg to Rootabaga Country: an excerpt from ‘The Day Carl Sandburg Died.’

A vintage scene from the Geffen-Roberts office on Sunset Blvd. in L.A.: a place where deals were made and a place where the show was as much about David Geffen as it was about the acts--from Neil Young to Joni Mitchell--he represented.

For David Geffen it came down to representing his friends and the songs that moved him. That's what made David Geffen.