Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages. Straightforward though ...

He earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and started a career in music and politics. And he penned the song, "You Are My Sunshine" in 1940 earning a Grammy Award.

“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world.