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Soul of a people : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, David A., 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2009]
Subjects:
Federal Writers' Project > History.
United States > Guidebooks > History > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
Federal Writers' Project > Influence.
Table of Contents:
  • The Writers' Project
  • Point of departure : New York
  • Chicago and the midwest
  • Gathering folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem
  • Rising up in the West : Idaho
  • Nailing a freight on the fly : Nebraska
  • Poetic land, pugnacious people : California
  • Raising the dead in New Orleans
  • Cigars and turpentine in Florida
  • American and un-American : back around the boroughs
  • Converging on Washington
  • Traveling beyond.