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Soul of a People : The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor and David A. Taylor (2009, Hardcover)

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Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.

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Publisher
Wiley & Sons Canada, The Limited, John
ISBN-10
0470403802
ISBN-13
9780470403808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69688742

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Book Title
Soul of a People : the WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America
Author
David A. Taylor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
History
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E175.4.W9t39 2009
Table of Content
Foreword.Acknowledgments.Prologue.Introduction: At a Crossroads.1. The Writers Project.2. Point of Departure: New York.3. Chicago and the Midwest.4. Gathering Folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem.5. Rising Up in the West: Idaho.6. Nailing a Freight on the Fly: Nebraska.7. Poetic Land, Pugnacious People: California.8. Raising the Dead in New Orleans.9. Cigars and Turpentine in Florida.10. American and Un-American: Back Around the Boroughs.11. Converging on Washington.12. Traveling Beyond.Appendix: Resources for Readers and Travelers.Sources.Index.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-047041
Dewey Decimal
973.917
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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