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Book

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

Call Number

  • 973.917 T2395 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.

Physical Description

xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

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