The Star - Spangled Banner is an anthem that is known by almost every American. Although most everyone is familiar with the anthem, not many people are familiar with the life of the man who wrote it. By choosing to write about Francis Scott Key, it is my goals to understand his life and dive more deeply into what he may have inspired him the night that he composed the anthem that almost all Americans have come to respect.This book was fairly easy to find, I was able to find it using the green county library online catalogs. What so proudly we hail was the only biography to be written about Francis Scott key in almost 75 years, so I did not have a lot of options when it came to picking out a book to read. Fortunately the author of this book