Elizabeth T. Craft. <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage</i>

Elizabeth T. Craft’s Yankee Doodle Dandy surveys the legacy of the early-twentieth-century Broadway showman George M. Cohan, in particular his performances of American patriotism and Irish identity. Blending biography with analysis, the book burnishes Cohan’s fame, while raising timely questions about American nationalism, cultural memory, and the making of Broadway mythology.