{"product_id":"playbook-1","title":"Playbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e''\u003cb\u003eGRIPPING AND FIERCELY URGENT.'' - FINTAN O''TOOLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''FASCINATING, TIMELY, AND DEEPLY RESEARCHED.'' - \u003ci\u003eTHE SPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''AN ABSORBING, NECESSARY BOOK.'' - AYAD AKHTAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the ''Winner of Winners'' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1935. \u003c\/b\u003eAs part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s progressive New Deal, the Work Progress Administration is created to support unemployed workers, including writers, artists, musicians and actors. The Federal Theatre Project, a major part of that programme, begins to stage critically acclaimed, subsidised and groundbreaking productions across America, including Orson Welles’s directorial debut, a landmark modern dance programme and shows that sought to tell the truth about racism, inequality and the dangers of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1938. \u003c\/b\u003eAn opportunistic Texas congressman, Martin Dies, head of the newly formed House Un-American Activities Committee, successfully targets the Federal Theatre, exploiting rising tensions over communism and creating a new political playbook based on sensationalism, misinformation and fear – a playbook that has proved instrumental in our current culture wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of the world’s great storytellers, \u003ci\u003eThe Playbook \u003c\/i\u003eis an invigorating re-enactment of a terrifyingly prescient moment in twentieth-century American cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400658264446,"sku":"NW9780571372768","price":14.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571372768.jpg?v=1778614385","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/playbook-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}