Music for Patriots, Politicians, and Presidents

By Vera Brodsky Lawrence

Book Overview

Harmonies and Discords of the First Hundred Years. Lawrence employs a unique and unusually entertaining means of exploring the growth of our nation. A remarkable collection of music from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025693905
• ISBN13: 9780025693906
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Invaluable resource for scholars/teachers of music/history

I'm trying to get a copy of this book for my own library because I keep referring to it so often. If you teach history and are looking for a way to make it come alive for your classes, try this book (if you can get it--check a good university library). You will find songs that the patriots sang during the Revolutionary War, songs from the Civil War, and songs from presidential campaigns. The pictures are invaluable, gleaned from libraries by the author, a renowned historian in this area. This huge book covers a large time span, but doesn't spare the details that make history "live" in a different era. I think this book is a must for anyone entering the interdisciplinary field in a serious way.