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[Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Traber Burns] [Read by Traber Burns] A narrative history of the writing of ''This Land Is Your Land'' and ''God Bless America'' that uncovers the conflicts and common ground between two classic patriotic songs. 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 make a new start. As he eked his way across the country by bus and by thumb, he couldn't avoid Berlin's song.