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In this audiobook, Randy Fertel offers a tour de force exploration of improvisation and its many uses, beginning with what most people would associate with ""improv"" a distinctive form of theater perfected by Chicago's Second City troupe. But the author then demonstrates how the concept of improvisation touches many other areas of life and society and has immense creative and destructive potential--and he goes on to show why the latter is especially salient in today's political climate. Indeed, for Fertel, one of the most significant applications of improvisation is in the political arena, where it has the most potential and is the most perilous. While explaining the dark places that former President Donald Trump takes improvisation, Fertel suggests that ""his improvising gave him the authority to break norms (and laws).""

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Randy Fertel, a writer based in New York and New Orleans, is president of both the Fertel Foundation and the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he received a student-voted teaching award, and specializes in the literature of the Vietnam War. He has taught English at Harvard, Tulane University, LeMoyne College, the New School for Social Research, and the University of New Orleans. Fertel is a prolific and popular essayist with recent items in Smithsonian, Gastronomica, Gilt Taste, Creative Nonfiction, Tikkun, New Orleans Magazine, and Kenyon Review, which published his award-winning essay on Hurricane Katrina. Sean Pratt has been a working professional actor in theatre, film, TV and voice-overs for over 30 years. He has been an audiobook narrator for the last 25 years recording over 1,000 books in almost every genre and has received 8 AudioFile Magazine ""Earphones"" awards, 3 SOVAS nominations, and 5 ""Audie"" nominations from the Audio Publishers Association. Jeffrey Hedquist has narrated audiobooks ranging from self help and personal growth to award winning children's books. He is also well-known for the many characters he has created over the years in hundreds of radio ads.

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