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Loading... The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 (edition 1996)by Jerre Mangione
Work InformationThe Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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