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(0)Robert Schenkkan
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One of the most important contemporary works of political theater, The Kentucky Cycle was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for its astute and dramatically epic investigation of the brutal birth of America. Set in the Appalachian Mountains and spanning seven generations-from 1775 to 1975-this saga of rural Kentucky digs beneath our American mythology to confront the truth of our national history.
It is the story of three families whose lives are irrevocably...
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November, 1963. An assassin's bullet catapults Lyndon Baines Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering ambition and appetite, this charismatic, conflicted Texan hurls himself into the passage of the Civil Rights Act -- a tinderbox issue emblematic of a divided America -- even as he campaigns for reelection in his own right, and the recognition he so desperately wants.