The economics of Arthur Miller: salesmen, dockers and gilded preachers
From All My Sons to The Crucible and beyond, the great playwright captured America's financial, as well as existential, desperationArthur Miller called The American Clock, which premiered in 1980, a vaudeville. But it was really his view of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression: even more than an economic crash, it was a national emotional collapse, "like all the winds had stopped, gone dead" " the moment Americ…