that is the way joe klein describes at. a human convulsion of epic proportions was in progress.wn as the farms emptied and the highway is filled. on the country music station jimmy rodgers was up there yodeling and singing the california waters tasteay ust like cherry wine. and woody and half a million migrants from the dust bowl region grow their way westward towards those legendary vineyards and orchards in california. they were chasing a dream. somquiehing that woody later called the stingiest thing i ever ran onto and this was the promise of unscrupulous labor contractors in california who were aware of the dust bobow crisis and decided to exploit it by flooding the dust bowl region with things like this promising work for every idle hand. hundreds of thousands of hand needed to pick the peaches and grapes and a per cots and croons. they d3 min't need hundreds of thousands of hands. they needed a couple thousand in particular periods of time. work out the implications for wage. you can engineer a crisis when you have a couple hundred thousand hands changing a couple thousand

we've got joe klein. and joe klein has bumper stickers, on the road again. on the road again.ow me. look at these bumper stickers. this is big, joe klein, very big. so let's start with rick, though. i think you just put this guy on your cover because he shares your first name. >> you know what? i hadn't thought of that before. >> not a way to start. >> no, joe, you're misunderestimating me too. we were talking before, rick perry is on our cover. we did the first interview with him since he declared. beautiful portrait by the portrait artist platton. platton asks whoever he's shooting what their favorite beatles song is, and do you want to guess what rick perry's? i told joe. you can't guess. >> "here comes the sun." >> you read the thing already. that is so unfair. >> cheat. how did this reveal the soul of rick perry? >> so rick perry, mark haleprin and i talked to him, we wrote a very good story, and i think rick perry is on to something. i think he's tapping into something in the republican electorate, particularly the primary electorate, something that hasn't been out there

and again, as joe klein describes it in his biography, he says these old radicals around the campfireanized gang of redds ever to strike fear into the hearts of the american bourgeoisie to read industrial workers of the world. i.w.w.. a lot of people think that they were wiped out in the great red scare of 1919, 1920. we weren't wiped out, we just want to wait for the invention of the internet. so it's i.w.w. and you can pay by direct debit. anyway, and the infected guthrie with their humor and cynicism and anger but particularly the songs they sang out of their little red songbook to fan the flames of discontent and all of the songs in that book the ones that woody would have loved the most are the 26 parody's priceless the funny written by joe hill, swedish born immigrant to the united states who became a martyr to the cause of american labor with his execution on a very dubious murder charge in the state of utah in 1915. students of american history, labor history will be aware of this during a telegram that he sent to his colleagues the night before his execution he said don't was