The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
Piquant and resonant ... Without sufficient evidence, [Shapiro's] assertion comes across as overreach ... The Playbook, though, is nonetheless an engrossing read... and the present-day echoes of Dies’s culture-warring are unambiguous.
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An enthralling new book about this little-known chapter in American theater history.
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Shapiro’s book is meticulous and highly researched, albeit in no way apolitical ... The goodies and the baddies are clearly delineated: what the FTP strove to do, however imperfectly, was ultimately a Good Thing, and Dies and his cronies killed more than they knew by shutting it down.
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