You know the songs by heart. You've traded the friendship bracelets. You've worn the cowboy
boots and the bejewelled bodysuits. Now get the inside track on this generation's biggest
super star - Taylor Swift. An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most
legendary figure Taylor Swift from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield. A cultural
phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor
Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star songwriter
storyteller guitar hero live performer changing how music is made and heard. An all-time
great on the level of The Beatles Prince or David Bowie. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem:
How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and
cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield the bestselling
and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles On Bowie and Love Is a Mix Tape. The
legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of
her long career from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of
Swift and her music her lyrics her fan connection her raw power. At once one of the most
beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized Taylor Swift is
known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hits-the most public of stars
yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield's Dreaming the Beatles
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every
word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.
