Uncle Sam Presents : A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939 / Tony Buttitta, Barry Witham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buttitta, Tony, author.

Witham, Barry, author.

Contributor:

Clurman, Harold.

Cowley, Malcolm.

Freeman, Don.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1982]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword / Cowley, Malcolm

Introduction / Clurman, Harold

Act One. Hanging the Show August 27, 1935

Act Two. Curtain Rising, March 1936

Intermission. November 1936

Act Three. The Show Goes On, 1937-1938

Act Four. Ringing Down the Curtain, June 30, 1939

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

1-5128-1504-7

OCLC:

1024050138