An American Daughter (Audio Theatre Series)

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Summary: An American Daughter
Review: Amazingly relevant to present days. Beautifully acted and written.

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Summary: An American (Ritual) Character Assassination
Review: Of the Wasserstein I've read, Heidi and Rosensweig, this one read the smoothest.
It was an engrossing story, certainly recognizable in this day in age, peppered with characters that I've seen time and again on cable news, and pivots on that seemingly minor transgression everyone famous and political seems(has) to have made.
What stands out about An American Daughter is the weakness in the media system to award courage and conviction in action. Even in spite of mistakes, which are surely universal. That I suppose was behind Wasserstein's m.o., that tangling with the gossips and character assassins and the news engine is more gristle for them, death for you. That is a statement painfully necessary more and more, as the hypocrisy of the day is not slips of paper and frustrating civil service, but war and death and political capital.