Finally…here is the first, and only, book that visually tells us the intimate story of Peter, Paul and  Mary and their music with stirring images that follow their passionate, fifty year journey to the center of America’s heart. The very best of thousands of 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 60s when Mary was, arguably, the most desired, beautiful and charismatic performer in the country as well as a new role model for women. Follow the trio as it leads America to discover the passionate soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality, social justice and freedom in this memorable photographic 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, you can feel, and almost hear, the trio’s songs calling for a more caring, better world as you see them performing before hundreds of thousands of people 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. For everyone who has ever been moved by the trio’s music, this book will bring you closer to them than ever before. 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 our lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we yearn to recapture and recreate in our own time; for ourselves, our children, and the generations to come.