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An American Daughter centers on Lyssa Dent Hughes, an affluent, well‑educated daughter of a Republican senator and a presidential nominee for Surgeon General, whose privileged life in Georgetown is upended by media scrutiny. A previously overlooked failure to respond to a jury‑duty summons becomes a catalyst for a press investigation that exposes the privacy of her family and threatens her political career.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Drama & Plays/Drama
Authors: Wendy Wasserstein
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