Henry Alsberg
Subtitle: the driving force of the New Deal Federal Writers' Project
By: Susan Rubenstein DeMasi
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780786495351
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project; Intellectual life; Civilization; History; Biography; Journalists
Description: "During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. This book brings Alsberg to light as an important but forgotten figure of the 20th century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The strangely gifted Henry G. Alsberg" 1881-1907; title: The wanderlust of a "Philosophical Anarchist" 1907-1918; title: "Our people are suffering in a terrible way" December 1919-May 1920; title: Tyranny by prophets May 1920-August 1921; title: At sea, and at sea again September 1921-September 1927; title: "The best souls and brains of Russia are being exterminated" 1924-1929; title: "To the daring belongs the world" 1929-1934; title: The man who wrote America: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1938; title: Cultural and creative expressions: the FWP's American mosaic 1936-1938.