Soul of a people [electronic resource] : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America / David A. Taylor.
2009
E175.4.W9 T39 2009eb
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Soul of a people [electronic resource] : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America / David A. Taylor.
Author
Taylor, David A., 1961-
ISBN
9780470885895 (electronic bk.)
0470885890 (electronic bk.)
9780470885888 (electronic bk.)
0470885882 (electronic bk.)
9780470403808
0470403802
0470885890 (electronic bk.)
9780470885888 (electronic bk.)
0470885882 (electronic bk.)
9780470403808
0470403802
Publication Details
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 260 p.) : ill.
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E175.4.W9 T39 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.917
Summary
"In the wake of the Crash of 1929, companies fired an average of 20,000 workers every day; in some cities over half the adult population was unemployed. The story of writers rescued from joblessness by the Federal Writers' Project is as much the compelling drama of people caught when a soaring economy suddenly crashes as it is the fascinating account of some of America's best writers - before they were famous - turned loose on the landscape with a government mandate to 'hold up a mirror to America.' ... In 1935, the federal government's WPA Writers' Project offered a lifeline: it hired unemployed writers to document life in America for a series of state travel guides. The WPA writers walked streets, interviewed passersby, described urban landmarks and rural landscapes, chatted about nightclubs and bars, recorded folklore and folk music, and compiled what is now very precious information about how Americans lived and how America looked. With striking images, firsthand accounts, and new discoveries from personal collections and other sources, David Taylor's Soul of a People brings it all to vibrant and unruly life: the writers, their friendships, the hardships, the political battles, and the enduring outcome."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.
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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.
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.