The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Mystery_Gift_Guide it was recently rediscovered as

it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle

But the inspiration for it all was her extensive collection of diaries—fastidiously kept

lose yourself in the pages

mother and daughter come from two different worlds and have different ideas of what it means to lead a good life

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The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Mystery_Gift_Guide it was recently rediscovered asOne 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