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The Beltway Virgin's Tale.(Review) (book review)

American Theatre,  July, 2000  by Nunns, Stephen

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Jane Alexander recounts her NEA days in name-dropping detail

COMMAND PERFORMANCE: AN ACTRESS IN THE THEATER OF POLITICS by Jane Alexander. PublicAffairs, New York. 336 pp, 8 photos, $27.50 cloth.

It's ironic and at the same time not all that surprising that Command Performance, Jane Alexander's account of her trials as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, hasn't nearly the drama or page-turning qualities of her predecessor John Frohnmayer's tell-all book, Leaving Town Alive. The ironic part comes from knowing Alexander's flair for the dramatic: As an actress ...

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