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Michael Lasser makes a persuasive argument for the importance of American song – in all its variations – as an indicator of patriotism. Lasser’s scholarship is extraordinary, and he finds examples both obvious and obscure. Ranging over a wide spectrum of styles, he illuminates how people like Irving Berlin reflected the changing culture, including songs that are racist and unacceptable to our modern sensibilities, but remain historically important to the whole story. -- Ted Chapin * former president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization *

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Michael Lasser was a writer, broadcaster, and former teacher. A former teacher of English, he wrote four previous books about American popular music. His nationally-syndicated public radio show, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, was on the air for forty years and won a George Foster Peabody Award.

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