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New York: Da Capo Press, Date: 2001. xiii, 335 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Wraps rubbed. Stated First Da Capo Press Edition. Remainder mark/tail edge. Actress Jane Alexander headed the NEA during the Clinton years. "Jane Alexander had never been involved in mainstream politics and was happily engaged in her acting career when she was asked to consider becoming head of the embattled National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s. When, during her first visit to the Hill, Senator Strom Thurmond barked at her, 'You gonna fund pornography?' she knew it would be a rough ride. Nothing had quite prepared her for the role of madame chairman. Her tenure coincided with the ascent of the infamous 104th Congress, presided over by Speaker Newt Gingrich, and its campaign to eliminate the Endowment completely. In Command Performance, Alexander brings a Washington outsider's perspective and an actor's eye for the telling human detail to an anecdote-filled story of the art of politics and the politics of art. And at the start of a new administration in Washington, she reminds us why we need art and why government should be in the business of supporting it. / Jane Alexander has starred in dozens of movies, including The Great White Hope, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Eleanor and Franklin, Testament, and The Cider House Rules. She was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997. She lives ...

U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, Date: 2001. Soft cover. New. Softcover, NEW, no marks or blemishes, light shelf wear 2001. Da Capo Press ISBN 0306810441 9780306810442 [US]

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Perseus, Date: 2001. Trade Paperback. New. 360 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2001. Perseus ISBN 0306810441 9780306810442 [GB]

ISBN10: 0306810441, ISBN13: 9780306810442, [publisher: Perseus 2001-04-19] Softcover
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Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, Date: 2001. First Da Capo Press Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. xiii. [3], 335, [1] pages. Minor cover wear. Inscribed on title page. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Acknowledgments, Prologue, Epilogue, and Index. Topics covered include Early Training; The Audition; The Rehearsal; Curtain Up; The Production; The Scene; The Players; On the Road; Intermission; Act II; The Critics; Hollywood; Backstage; and Curtain Down. The witty, no-holds-barred memoir of the acclaimed actress who became head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American author, actress, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. She went on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in 1970 and received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Testament (1983). An eight-time Emmy nominee, ...

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