The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once rever

A biography of the nineteenth-century American composer.

In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.

Old favorites such as Beautiful Dreamer and Oh! Susanna as well as patriotic, plantation, and minstrel songs by the American composer are presented along with r