Miller, Arthur

including discussion of his work, American and Israeli politics, 11 pages, together with three faxes (and one duplicate) and two print-outs of emails, 6 pages, Roxbury, Connecticut, 12 December 1992 to 12 August 2002, with eight envelopes, including one with autograph address
[with:] 10 letters by Steiglitz to Miller, retained copies, mostly discussing Israeli politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 26 pages, 8 September 1987 to 27 July 2002

"...But what do you feel about this? From where do you draw hope?
I think I draw mine primarily from the prospect of creating something of beauty. To tell the truth, I don't dare contemplate what life must be for people who aren't able to create and are bound by the present and reality ... In fact, as you probably know, 'culture' is our second largest export, aircraft being first. So we teach the whole world how to dream, something at which we are expert..."

A REFLECTIVE SERIES OF LETTERS FROM THE 1990s. Miller was still writing new work in his last decade - these letters discuss such plays as The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, the film of The Crucible, and The Ride Down Mount Morgan - but he also writes about receiving honours for his lifetime achievement. The letters are replete with revealing comments about both men's personal and romantic lives. The chief subject of these letters is, however, politics. Stieglitz met Miller in 1987 when he was a post-doctoral fellow in international relations and nuclear strategy at Harvard's Kennedy School. They shared many political beliefs, including a radical critique of Israeli and American foreign policy, and in these letters Miller shares his wearily critical views of the Clinton administration, the Balkan crisis, and the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu.