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Author : Andy Bayiates,Sean Benjamin,Genevra Gallo-Bayiates,Chloe Johnston,Karen Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1623847311
Author : Tim Nolan,Timothy Nolan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0590481959
Kids "meet" the presidents and explore our country's history with this exciting collection of read-aloud, reproducible plays. Subjects include: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and many more. With background information, discussion questions, and writing activities to extend learning. The dramatic way to highlight this election year! For use with Grades 5-8.
Author : John Sayle Watterson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080188425X
"Looking at the athletic strengths, feats, and shortcomings of our presidents, John Sayle Watterson explores not only their health, physical attributes, personalities, and sports IQs, but also the increasing trend of Americans in the past century to equate sporting achievements with courage, manliness, and political competence."--Dust jacket [p. 2].
Author : Andrew Bayiates,Neo-Futurists (Theater company),Playscripts, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political plays
ISBN : OCLC:788623052
"44 plays for 44 presidents is a chronological, biographical survey of the lives and presidencies of the 43 men who have held the office so far. Their mistakes and successes are celebrated by a company of actors who take turns donning a star-spangled coat that symbolizes the presidency--p. 4 of cover.
Author : Andy Bayiates,Sean Benjamin,Genevra Gallo-Bayiates,Chloe Johnston,Karen Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1623840627
44 Plays For 44 Presidents is a chronological, biographical survey of the lives and presidencies of each of the 44 men who have held the office so far. Their mistakes and successes are celebrated by a company of actors who take turns donning a star-spangled coat that symbolizes the presidency. Beginning with George Washington's almost Eden-like perfection, the scenes shift frequently between the comic and the tragic, from Ben Franklin giving Thomas Jefferson a Borscht Belt-style roast, to the frank portrayal of William Henry Harrison's life as an "Indian slayer," and later the grim onset of the Civil War. Act II starts off the twentieth century with the assassination of William McKinley, moves through a Nixon-praising dance number, a George Bush Sr. mini-musical about dirty campaigning and arrives at a polarized America in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama plays. Audience members consider their role in shaping the history they've just witnessed, as they are left to ponder where the presidency has gone since its fall from paradise...and where it will go next.
Author : Jon Dietrick
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443842846
This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a “monstrous” substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a “hard” reality, transforming lived reality into an abstraction. At the same time, money’s self-generating properties have made it a serviceable metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making”; money’s ability to exchange means for ends, abstract for concrete, representation for real, has made it an emblem of our postmodern condition. Money has been conceived as a malevolent force robbing us of our natural relation to the world and to ourselves, and as an empowering one with which we may remake this relation. This ambivalence about money constitutes an important animating tension of American drama. Furthermore, anxieties surrounding money resemble in important ways anxieties surrounding theatre, and the plays’ treatment of money reveals interesting tensions between a persistent American dramatic realism and naturalism, and a philosophical and aesthetic postmodernism.
Author : Bruce E. Altschuler
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230110177
Although films about the presidency have been a popular subject for analysis, there is no equivalent literature about plays that portray chief executives. This book fills that gap by examining in detail about 50 plays depicting historical, fictional and even musical presidents. It explains how, as the public's trust in government has declined, the heroic presidents of the first half of the twentieth century have been replaced on stage by such antiheroes as Nixon and Harding.
Author : Dan Cohen
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Baseballs
ISBN : 9781601940209
Author : Michael J. Blouin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501381720
The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.
Author : James Still
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Butlers
ISBN : 1583422293
Playbook
Author : Philip B. Kunhardt,Peter W. Kunhardt
Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 157322832X
Explores the lives of the presidents and the evolution of the presidency.
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307388803
David Mamet's Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet. Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys—saving them from the slaughter before Thanksgiving—and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk it all in attempt to win back public support. With Mamet's characteristic no-holds-barred style, November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win.
Author : Lucas Hnath
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822233855
In an alternate universe light-years away from our own is a planet called Earth. It looks a lot like our Earth, except it’s slightly different. And living on this other Earth is a woman named Hillary. Hillary is trying to become the president of a country called the United States of America. It’s 2008 and she’s campaigning in a state called New Hampshire. She’s not doing very well in the polls. She needs more money to keep the campaign going, so she calls her husband for help. He offers her a deal, a tough deal, but when she gets his help, she gets more than she bargained for. You may think you know where this story is going, but you don’t. After all, the play takes place in an alternate universe where anything can happen.
Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610395960
Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.
Author : University of North Carolina (System)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112112223547
