The common glory: A symphonic drama of American history with music, commentary, folksong, and dance

by Paul Green

With the use of song, music, poetry, dance, pantomime, and story-line, Green has created a colorful symphonic drama, presented Thomas Jefferson's single-handed triumph over the dissension and discouragement of his fellow Americans to keep alive their ideal of liberty. It is an absorbing story punctuated with high comedy.

Originally published in 1948.

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95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

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Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, which was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-1927.

Green was also a composer, and he collaborated with Kurt Weill. His best known songs include "Oh, Heart of Love", "On the Rio Grande", "Mon Ami, My Friend" and "Johnny's Song".