Bates’s beautiful America had sinned, and its sin was greed. The best poetry Katharine Lee Bates ever wrote appeared in a book called Yellow Clover, a book of love poems she wrote in memory of ...

"America the Beautiful" may best be remembered for its ... so polarized," Bates biographer Nancy Churnin, author of the book for young readers, "For Spacious Skies," told Fox News Digital.