Soul of a people
Subtitle: the WPA writer's project uncovers depression America
By: David Taylor.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780470403808
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project -- History; Federal Writers' Project -- Influence; United States -- Guidebooks -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The writers?; title: Point of departure; title: Chicago and the midwest; title: Gathering folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem; title: Rising up in the West; title: Nailing a freight on the fly; title: Poetic land, pugnacious people; title: Raising the dead in New Orleans; title: Cigars and turpentine in Florida; title: American and un-American; title: Converging on Washington; title: Traveling beyond.