America's Song: The Story of "Yankee Doodle" (Images from the Past)

America's Song: The Story of "Yankee Doodle" (Images from the Past)

Stuart Murray
$21.00
Publication Date: July 1st, 1999
Publisher:
Images from the Past
ISBN:
9781884592188
Pages:
216

Description

This is the first book ever to chronicle the origins of our most famous tune, recognized the world over as "America's Song." The legacy of "Yankee Doodle" is as rich as the heritage of America, originating in an ancient folk air brought to the New World by Dutch colonists in the 1600s. A century later, a British officer set his own verses to the melody, which mocked New England militia. "Yankee Doodle" was despised by colonials until the Revolution, when it was transformed from a song of insult into America's most stirring anthem of defiance and of victory. Illustrated with period art.

About the Author

Stuart Murray has written twelve works of fiction and ten of nonfiction. Murray's nonfiction "America's Song, the story of Yankee Doodle," was in Booklist's top ten books on music for 1999 and was awarded third place in the history category as ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year for 1999. "Rudyard Kipling in Vermont" was selected a national finalist in Independent Publisher's biography category in 1997. Having served as fiction editor for a leading book producer, Murray has worked on more than twenty historical novels, and with a number of best-selling authors.

A journalist, editor, and writer for more than twenty-five years, Murray loves with his family in New York's Hudson River Valley.

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