Insightful and inspiring analysis of the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize during the first 50 years of its existence (1917-1967). In a series of accessible and straightforward essays, Paul Firestone provides insightinto how these dramas reflect America's cultural values and mores, orga nizing them by their major themes: family life, social protest, political heroes, the spiritual condition of man, and morality in a materialistic society.
