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# Charles L. Mee Jr

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Charles Louis Mee Jr. is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts. He is also a Special Lecturer of theater at Columbia University.

##  Quotes by Charles L. Mee Jr

> [“Britain, in the memorable phrase of another young State Department officer, “was like a soldier wounded in war who, now that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-l-mee-jr/britain-in-the-memorable-phrase-of-another-young-state-department/)

Charles L. Mee Jr

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb1/charles-l-mee-jr-102766_death_britain-in-the-memorable-phrase-of-anoth_523546.jpg)

> [“It is a central characteristic of the American political system that a wheelbarrow fetishist could be mayor of Omaha.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-l-mee-jr/it-is-a-central-characteristic-of-the-american-political-system-that/)

Charles L. Mee Jr

[American politics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-politics/)

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