Great Americans: David Mamet on America’s First Pop Poet
Forget Walt Whitman. America's greatest bard wrote songs.
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Great Americans: David Mamet on America’s First Pop PoetForget Walt Whitman. America’s greatest bard wrote songs.By David Mamet06.30.26A photo of Paul Dresser from inside his childhood home located in Fairbanks Park in Terre Haute, Indiana. (AP Photo by Jim Avelis/Tribune-Star)--:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narration4READ IN APPWelcome back to Great Americans, a countdown to our country’s 250th birthday. We’re bringing you a writer we love on an American they love, every weekday between now and July 4. Previously, Matthew Walther paid tribute to Robert H. Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who went from pitching hay on a farm to prosecuting Nazis in Nuremberg.
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