<b>The book that inspired the major motion picture <i>I Saw the Light. </i>Originally published as<i>Hank William: The Biography.</i></b><br><br>In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as &quot;Your Cheatin' Heart,&quot; &quot;Hey, Good Lookin',&quot; and &quot;Jambalaya&quot; sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the<i>Grand Ole Opry</i>. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall.<br>Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph--now the basis of the major motion picture<i>I Saw the Light</i>--vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend.<br><br>