The Story of The Russian Immigrant Who Created America's Most Beloved Music—Irving Berlin

On this episode of Our American Stories, White Christmas' and 'God Bless America' are both standards of American popular music—both were written by an immigrant, an astonishing fact....but even more astonishing is the fact that they were written by the same man—Irving Berlin. Here to tell the story of Berlin is Bestselling author Laurence Bergreen who wrote the definitive biography, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin.

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