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Robert E. Sherwood : the playwright in peace and war /

"One of the nation's first film critics, an acclaimed speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, and a leading producer on Broadway, Robert E. Sherwood scripted some of the most popular plays and films of his day, including Waterloo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alonso, Harriet Hyman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Being an Emmet and a Sherwood
  • Born to be a ham
  • From soldier to pacifist
  • Life after the war
  • Writing plays for peace
  • Marriage, divorce, and The petrified forest
  • From pacifist to soldier
  • Sherwood and Roosevelt
  • Changing the message
  • The message is lost
  • Epilogue.