📱 eBook en inglés THE PLAYBOOK

GRIPPING AND FIERCELY URGENT. - FINTAN OTOOLE
FASCINATING, TIMELY, AND DEEPLY RESEARCHED. - THE SPECTATOR
AN ABSORBING, NECESSARY BOOK. - AYAD AKHTAR


From the Winner of Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.


1935. As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelts progressive New Deal, the Work Progress Administration is created to support unemployed workers, including writers, artists, musicians and actors. The Federal Theatre Project, a major part of that programme, begins to stage critically acclaimed, subsidised and groundbreaking productions across America, including Orson Welless directorial debut, a landmark modern dance programme and shows that sought to tell the truth about racism, inequality and the dangers of fascism.

1938. An opportunistic Texas congressman, Martin Dies, head of the newly formed House Un-American Activities Committee, successfully targets the Federal Theatre, exploiting rising tensions over communism and creating a new political playbook based on sensationalism, misinformation and fear - a playbook that has proved instrumental in our current culture wars.

From one of the worlds great storytellers, The Playbook is an invigorating re-enactment of a terrifyingly prescient moment in twentieth-century American cultural history.