THE PLAYBOOK: A STORY OF THEATER, DEMOCRACY, AND THE MAKING OF A CULTURE WAR BY JAMES SHAPIRO Manga From the easily disproved to

From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative

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THE PLAYBOOK: A STORY OF THEATER, DEMOCRACY, AND THE MAKING OF A CULTURE WAR BY JAMES SHAPIRO Manga From the easily disproved toOne of The Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of the Year A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never