Isbn: 9781586480851 - america the beautiful the stirring true story behind our nation's favorite song (14 Ergebnisse)

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hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First. Illustrated. 127 pages, thin square 8vo, yellow boards, d.w. New York: Public Affairs, (2001). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on half-title page.

Hardcover. 125 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. ; goldenrod textured boards ; dj. Remainder mark on lower edge.

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Hardcover. Reprint. Second printing. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. In this beautiful, patriotic gift book, colorfuly illustrated throughout, ABC News correspondent Lynn Sherr explores the fascinating history of our unofficial national anthem. We've all sung it a thousand times, and most of us know at least the first verse by heart. "America the Beautiful" has been called a hymn, a prayer, even the "national heartbeat set to music. " Numerous proposals and half a dozen bills in Congress have tried to replace our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner, " with this more lyrical, less militaristic song. But who knows the story behind the song? In America the Beautiful, Lynn Sherr tells the story of Katharine Lee Bates, a poet and pioneering young English professor at the newly established Wellesley College, who penned "America the Beautiful" at age 33, as she gazed over the glorious panorama from the top of Pike's Peak, Colorado. The poem, published two years later on July 4, 1895, struck a chord. Americans embraced it and immediately set it to music, trying out at least 74 different melodies. There were even Mexican, Canadian, and Australian versions. Analyzing the lyrics of "America the Beautiful" and the story of Katharine Lee Bates's unusual life, Lynn Sherr opens a window onto the shifting world of late 19th century America. She explores the lingering impact of the Civil War and the dramatic developments in commerce and technology, which shaped the American Century and the popularity of one brilliant, stirring song From Wikipedia: "Lynn Sherr (born March 4, 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. In 1977, she was the guest host of the MacNeil Lehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent, and has hosted a number of PBS specials. In 1983 85 she was a reporter/editor for Conde Nast. She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia. Sherr is an unabashed feminist. She has twice (in 1989 and 1992) been the recipient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA. She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010. [ Sherr has rejected calls for a "new feminism", remarking, "What's wrong with the old feminism? " She has criticized Sarah Palin for calling herself a feminist, demanding, "What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged? " Sherr was featured in the Jewish Women's Archive web feature, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution. She is the author of Outside the Box: A Memoir, published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV, including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with colon cancer." Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.…