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Dream and the Deal : The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSyracuse University Press

ISBN-100815604157

ISBN-139780815604150

eBay Product ID (ePID)165047

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

Publication NameDream and the Deal : the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Art & Politics, Social History

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, History

AuthorJerre Mangione

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-031893

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe best record we are likely to have of a rowdy, idealistic, sometimes farcical experiment that failed, yet succeeded too.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.917

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisAlmost 7000 authors--including Richard Wright, John Cheever, and Saul Bellow--were employed by this federal program, which saved many literary careers during the Depression and which also produced the best state guidebooks ever written., This programme to produce state guidebooks saved many literary careers during the Depression. Almost 7000 authors were involved, including Richard Wright, John Cheever and Saul Bellow., "A marvelous blend of administrative history studded with New Deal personalities and personal memoir". -- The Kirkus Reviews, Operating in every state in the union for eight turbulent years, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project provided needed jobs for more than 10,000 writers and would-be writers (among them Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright) and produced some 1,200 published books and pamphlets, including the magnificent American Guide Series, which gave the nation its first self-portrait. Nominated for the National Book Award in history, The Dream and the Deal is available to a new generation of readers, and includes a selected checklist of 400 Writers' Project publications.

LC Classification NumberE175.4.W9M3 1996