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Performing The Nutcracker as a Counter Revolutionary Act

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Performing The Nutcracker as a Counter Revolutionary Act Dr. E. Michael Jones

Radio hosts Stephen Hand and Joanna Francis of TCR Reports interview writer and lecturer E. Michael Jones about his book Ballet Parking: Performing The Nutcracker as Counter-Revolutionary Act, which addresses the phenomenon of the Nutcracker Ballet as performed throughout the United States each Christmas season as indicative of a longing for a better, but lost and forgotten world. (October 2009)