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W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues by David Robertson; Knopf That William Christopher Handy insisted on anointing himself the “father of the blues” has been seen since his death in 1958 at age 84 as canny self-promotion, a foxy hubris. Even Robertson, as scrupulous, even-tempered and sympathetic a …
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