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Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics.(Review) (book review)

Arts Education Policy Review,  September, 2000  by Merrion, Margaret Dee

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Jane Alexander Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics New York: Public Affairs Press 336 pp., $27.50 cloth

Command Performance is Jane Alexander's memoir of her four years as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Alexander's account is an honest one. She realistically assesses her role as a family member, artist, friend, leader of the endowment, and citizen of the arts. But her account is a sad one, too. We know some battles were lost, but from the start, there are serious doubts as to anyone's ability to be successful--even a bright, skillful ...

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