Elizabeth B Murfee, Jack L August

Play by Play

Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In their unrelenting drive to create a thriving desert metropolis, leaders of the most populous city in the arid Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona, seemed oblivious to two essential elements that form a vibrant urban environment. This title illustrates the central role the arts hold when a city consciously reaches for distinction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas Christian University Press
• First Edition, 1 edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 221mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780875654102
• ISBN-10: 087565410X
• Artikelnr.: 28967361

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH B. MURFEE has been consultant to national foundations on cultural policy, worked with the Houston Opera, was manager of Texas Opera Theater, and wrote publications for the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. A cum laude graduate of Rider University, she married Dino DeConcini in 1998; they reside in New York and Tucson. JACK L. AUGUST, JR. is executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center and Visiting Scholar in Legal History at Snell & Wilmer. August writes on twentieth-century western political and environmental history, including Vision in the Desert, Senator Dennis DeConcini, and Dividing Western Waters . In 2009, August coauthored Adversity Is My Angel: The Life and Career of Raúl H. Castro.