Harold Leventhal

As a teenager, in the 1930s at the height of the Depression, Harold Leventhal was active in left-wing political causes before joining the Irving Berlin Music Co. at 20 years of age where he started as an office boy and rose to the position of music plugger. He served in the Signal Corps during World War II and in 1948 worked on the Henry Wallace Presidential Campaign. During the 1950s he became a key figure in the American Folk Movement becoming the manager for Pete Seeger and the Weavers and later played a major role in the career of Bob Dylan.