On a day honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., this will be the first public reading of a 'semi-true' play, which celebrates four generations of the playwright's Italian immigrant family, who lived through much of the turmoil and social upheavals of the last century and endured, in the words of the author's grandmother 'one long Depression.'
On a day honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., this will be the first public reading of a 'semi-true' play, which celebrates four generations of the playwright's Italian immigrant family, who lived through much of the turmoil and social upheavals of the last century and endured, in the words of the author's grandmother 'one long Depression.'
In early 2007, George Packer published an article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no U.S. protection or security.
Among the many real-life characters depicted are Peter H. Bergson (a Zionist emissary in the United States, born Hillel Kook,) prominent Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (FDR's Secretary of the Treasury,) Breckenridge Long (FDR's obstructionist immigration overseer,) and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht.
Among the many real-life characters depicted are Peter H. Bergson (a Zionist emissary in the United States, born Hillel Kook,) prominent Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (FDR's Secretary of the Treasury,) Breckenridge Long (FDR's obstructionist immigration overseer) and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht.
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