David Robertson

W. C. Handy

The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues

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Produktbeschreibung

David Robertson charts W. C. Handy's rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780817356965
• ISBN-10: 0817356967
• Artikelnr.: 33771323

Autorenporträt

David Robertson is the author of three previous biographies--of the slave rebel Denmark Vesey, the former U.S. secretary of state James F. Byrnes, and the bishop James A. Pike--and of a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth. His poetry has appeared in the Sewanee Review and other journals, and he has provided political and literary commentary to ABC News and the Washington Post. He was educated in Alabama and lives in Ohio.