Political Theater

Stupid Plays includes four deliciously dumb plays. They are silly, funny, and a great way to waste an afternoon! Sugar and Spice - Ruth Stone returns to work after the death of her husband and turns to a life of crime. Grave Undertakings - Zoe pays off past debts by turning the mortuary where she interns into a necrophiliac whorehouse. Freedumb - don't worry if the country goes socialist, fascist, or communist, because we've got freedumb! Bread and Circuses - Junior and Steffie go on the ride of their lives.

Throughout history, there has been a consistent crossover between show business and espionage, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and occasionally leading to disastrous and dangerous failures. The fact that one relies on publicity and the other on secrecy might seem to rule out a successful symbiosis, but as both require high levels of creative thinking, improvisation, disguise and role-play, they inevitably attract some remarkably similar personalities. Stars and Spies is the first history of the interplay between the two worlds.

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy toward the bloody Balkans War. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and his own notes, David Scheffer, who later became America's first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, weaves the true story of how policy options were debated in the Sit Room among the highest national security officials.