{"product_id":"an-american-journey-9780881455526","title":"An American Journey","description":"A passionate retelling of the Daniel Bell incident, in which a black man was shot and killed while running from police officers. \"The Daniel Bell incident twice was a major story in Milwaukee. In 1958, the 22-year-old black man was shot and killed while running from a pair of uniformed Milwaukee policemen. In the late 1970s, one of the former police officers came forward and admitted the shooting incident was not self-defense and that there was a cover-up that spread from the Milwaukee Police Department to the office of the district attorney. That disclosure launched a criminal trial and subsequent civil suit by the family of the slain man. The Bell incident forms the basis of a compelling and, for the most part, engrossing play, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY.\" Rugg, Variety \"Kermit Frazier's and John Leicht's AN AMERICAN JOURNEY is a piece of fine playwriting ... the play is an effective and moving piece of drama.\" -Jay Joslyn, Milwaukee Sentinel \"... authors Kermit Frazier and John Leicht [bring] forth a model of clarity and condensation that is all the more notable for its power to move us.\" -Nels Nelson, Philadelphia Daily News \"AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, a provocative play that rings with awareness of American life as people are actually living it today.\" -William B Collins, The Philadelphia Inquirer \"The play creates a haunting portrait of a transient country in which many characters, both black and white, seem unable to settle down in one place.\" -Bruce Murphy, Milwaukee \"Playwrights Kermit Frazier (who is black) and John Leicht (who is white) have succeed in fashioning a powerhouse play ... that is ingenious in structure (moving through time with cinematic grace), passionate in content ...\" -Charles Lee, W F L N\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330224296210,"sku":"9780881455526","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b4a6b84-e77e-4c73-ae5f-8e2e24eba56c.jpg?v=1727795979","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-american-journey-9780881455526","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}