Soul of a people : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America / David Taylor.

Author/creator Taylor, David A., 1961-
Format Book
Publication InfoHoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.
LCCN 2008047041
ISBN9780470403808 (cloth)
ISBN0470403802 (cloth)