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Eugene o'Neill's America

Desire under Democracy

Eugene o'Neill's America( )
Author: Diggins, John Patrick
ISBN:978-0-226-14880-9
Publication Date:Apr 2007
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $72.99
Book Description:

In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Drama
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.584 Kilograms
Author Biography
Diggins, John Patrick (Author)
John Patrick Diggins: April 1, 1935 - January 28, 2009 John Patrick Diggins was born in San Francisco on April 1, 1935. He was a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the author of more than a dozen books on widely varied subjects in American intellectual history. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, a master's degree at San Francisco State College, and a doctorate at the University of Southern California in 1964. Before accepting a job at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1990, he taught intellectual history at San Francisco State College and the University of California, Irvine.

Diggins wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Mussolini and Fascism (1972), On Hallowed Ground (2000), Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy (2007), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). He died due to complications of colon cancer on January 28, 2009 at the age of 73.

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