The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943
by Jerre Mangione
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Almost 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.Tags
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Gets bogged down by Mangione's over abundant love of juicy gossip about Writer's Project staff, but at first it's fascinating. And the gossip does tell a story: about the utterly quixotic idea of a state bureaucracy employing a lot of dissolute, highly individualistic, egotistical, wayward souls to work on a collective project that marvelously, in its short lifetime, actually largely succeeded in both chronicling and creating the culture of its time.
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Jerre Mangione is the former coordinating editor of the Federal Writers' Project and professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania
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