The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavall e--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America. The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective lives. No longer. This formidable and gorgeously written tale documents the history of this song of a nation, from its origins in French Canada...