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The Playbook
- A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
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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 seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater professor, Hallie Flanagan. It employed, at its peak, over twelve thousand struggling artists, some of whom, like Orson Welles and Arthur Miller, would soon be famous, but most of whom were just ordinary people eager to work again at their craft. It was the product of a moment when the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were thought to be vital to the health of the republic, bringing Shakespeare to the public, alongside modern plays that confronted the pressing issues of the day—from slum housing and public health to racism and the rising threat of fascism.
The Playbook takes us through some of its most remarkable productions, including a groundbreaking Black production of Macbeth in Harlem and an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s anti-fascist novel It Can’t Happen Here that opened simultaneously in 18 cities, underscoring the Federal Theatre’s incredible range and vitality. But this once thriving Works Progress Administration relief program did not survive and has left little trace. For the Federal Theatre was the first New Deal project to be attacked and ended on the grounds that it promoted “un-American” activity, sowing the seeds not only for the McCarthyism of the 1950s but also for our own era of merciless polarization. It was targeted by the first House un-American Affairs Committee, and its demise was a turning point in American cultural life—for, as Shapiro brilliantly argues, “the health of democracy and theater, twin born in ancient Greece, have always been mutually dependent.”
A defining legacy of this culture war was how the strategies used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Federal Theatre were assembled by a charismatic and cunning congressman from East Texas, the now largely forgotten Martin Dies, who in doing so pioneered the right-wing political playbook now so prevalent that it seems eternal.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“A vibrant history both of the astonishingly successful Federal Theatre Project and the culture wars that succeeded in quashing it. . . Its demise still resonates, Shapiro warns, with the Dies playbook revived by culture warriors noisily censoring the arts. Sharp history as cautionary tale.”—Kirkus
“Another captivating theater history in which politics and entertainment intersect . . . Shapiro’s exquisite backstage history also cannily reflects on present-day political implications. It’s a bravura performance.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Shapiro points out at the beginning of his fascinating, tightly written tome that the word playbook has two meanings—a book of scripts and a set of tactics employed in a competitive activity . . . The most compelling chapters, though, concern Texas Representative Martin Dies Jr. and the playbook he followed as director of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to target and, ultimately, bring down the Federal Theatre Project and Flanagan. Shapiro notes that Dies’ destructive tactic, using well publicized public hearings to spread hearsay, rumors, and half-truths about his targets and gain lots of press, became the model for subsequent culture warriors intent on securing notoriety and silencing unwelcome voices and dissent.”—Booklist
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In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age 42, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn - King Lear - then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.
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- De Tad Davis en 02-24-16
De: James Shapiro
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Out of One, Many
- Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
- De: Jennifer T. Roberts
- Narrado por: Petrea Burchard
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.
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The Last Plantation
- Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress
- De: James R. Jones
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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A must-listen for anyone concerned about social justice and the future of our democracy, The Last Plantation exposes the mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequality in the halls of Congress and challenges us to confront and transform this unequal workplace that shapes our politics and society.
De: James R. Jones
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- De: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrado por: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 10 h
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Contested Will
- Who Wrote Shakespeare?
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 11 h
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For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in the English language?
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Somewhat Surprised and very pleased
- De Geoff in NY en 04-10-10
De: James Shapiro
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The Playbook
- 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
- De: Kwame Alexander
- Narrado por: Ruffin Prentiss
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for ourselves? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration for kids ages 10 and up to help them succeed on and off the court.
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GREAT!!
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-18
De: Kwame Alexander
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Baghdad at Night
- De: Dallas Pearce
- Narrado por: Jacob Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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Baghdad at Night is a first-person narrative seen through the eyes of an Airborne Infantry scout during 'The Surge' of 07-08 in central Baghdad. This book encompasses all facets of life in the modern Middle Eastern warzone. This story gives the listener an intimate view of the soldier's life, from the barracks to the battlefield.
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Fabulous!!!
- De Pearce-Harris en 06-15-24
De: Dallas Pearce
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The War We Won Apart
- The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
- De: Nahlah Ayed
- Narrado por: Nahlah Ayed
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other.
De: Nahlah Ayed
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Orwell's Ghosts
- Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
- De: Laura Beers
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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George Orwell devoted his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own-rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, as well as his brilliant essays—to examine what "Orwellian" means and to take it out of the hands of political pundits.
De: Laura Beers
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Sondheim
- His Life, His Shows, His Legacy
- De: Stephen M. Silverman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of Broadway Babies and complemented by more than two hundred color and black-and-white images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy offers a witty, multidimensional look at the musical genius behind Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and the landmark West Side Story and Gypsy.
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Sondheim: A genius never to be forgotten
- De PJ en 11-03-23
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MacArthur Reconsidered
- General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander
- De: James Ellman
- Narrado por: Kent Klineman
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure: he underestimated the Japanese, and his poorly trained forces were outmaneuvered and outfought by a much smaller invading force.
De: James Ellman
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Triumph of the Yuppies
- America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
- De: Tom McGrath
- Narrado por: Stacy Carolan
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—had become a cultural punchline. But amidst the Yuppies' preoccupation with money, work, and the latest status symbols, something serious was happening, too, something that continues to have profound ramifications on American culture four decades later.
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Superficial social analysis of baby boomers
- De Antonia en 07-07-24
De: Tom McGrath
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Fosse
- De: Sam Wasson
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
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The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment. His signature style would influence generations of performing artists. Yet in spite of Fosse’s innumerable—including Cabaret, Pippin, All That Jazz, and Chicago, one of the longest-running Broadway musicals ever—his offstage life was shadowed by deep wounds and insatiable appetites.
De: Sam Wasson
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The Violent Years
- De: BB Wood
- Narrado por: Angela DiPrima, Michael McDade
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Captured and imprisoned by the Germans three months after landing in the second wave at Normandy during World War II, William (Bill) Bonsall later escaped to Poland and ultimately competed on the 1948 U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Olympic Team. Forty years later, he recorded his life experiences in a series of audio tapes that cover the decade between 1940 and 1950, a period he called “violent” because of the tumultuous upheavals of the times.
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Amazing narration
- De SG en 06-13-24
De: BB Wood
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- Laurence R. Baker
- 07-01-24
Interesting but not Captivating
Shapiro’s book about the Federal Theater Project was very interesting as I knew nothing at all about this extraordinary WPA project. Shapiro is an exceptional writer. The narration was also the best I have ever heard on Audible. The book is very well narrated. Unfortunately it did not really hold my interest as it was pretty clear how the project was unfairly slandered and lacked political support to be sustained. I was not as astonished as Shapiro that ideological works which criticized the government (even if they matched Shapiro’s ideology) were then resented for receiving taxpayer dollars. Shapiro delves into the personalities of main players but for me his words would have been better spent describing how the ambitious logistics of the project worked. If they could have spread the theater even further into the hinterlands, they might have had stronger political support (though local censorship and racism may have been an even bigger issue, I suppose).
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