American Guides: The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

by Wendy Griswold

Book Overview

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. The Project's mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022635766X
• ISBN13: 9780226357669
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"