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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success.

WITH THE ECONOMY TURNED upside down, lack of work forced Billy McCoy to consider employment options he normally wouldn't. With his wife Dana, they uprooted the family and made a move north for a new business extensive opportunity requiring product marketing and direct contact with customers. The decision proved far more difficult than expected. As the months passed, with an income based solely on sales performance, Billy and Dana watched their savings account dwindle to nothing. Anxiety and fear capitalized their thoughts. Billy's success in this new career seemed dismal.

In The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.

The characters from the classic Prepper Trilogy have moved from their survival retreat on the lake and have taken up city living in one of the FEMA reconstruction towns. The government is attempting to jump start the economy once more after a solar storm took down the grid and the economy 10 long years ago. Politics and a religious cult leader who is a decedent of a Kudzu salesman threaten to upset the survivor's plans to restart their lives as the stresses of rejoining civilization mount.

As a young man embarks on a career, his journey is interrupted and guided by a mysterious homeless man whose perception and insight border on the surreal. Take an unexpected tour with Jim Fariss as he expands his mind, his career, and his beliefs with the most unlikely of mentors. The Unexpected Tour Guide is more than a story. It will take you on a personal journey of significance, awareness, and faith.