"There is a secret in life .... we all have a great hand in the forming of our own destiny." Dolley Madison You've sung or heard the lyrics to the National Anthem hundreds of times, but how well do you know the story behind the Nation's song? In America's Star Spangled Banner Story , award-winning author and former White House webmaster, Jane Hampton Cook, brings to life the story of our National Anthem in ways that will touch your heart, while showing the power behind the song that has transcended generations. What comes to mind when you think of our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the United States of America? Can you see what the song's lyricist, Francis Scott Key, saw? Or do you picture something else on the mural of your patriotic mind? What battlefields from US history tug at your heart? Discover how the land of the free found its anthem for the ages in this beautiful keepsake book.