Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America

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Overview

advance praise for soul of a people

"A wonderful and engaging book . . . David Taylor's Soul of a People will make you secretly wish that you could have been one of the thousands of writers who, during the height of the Depression, set out to paint an intimate portrait of a nation and its people. Taylor illuminates this history of the Federal Writers' Project with impressive research and deft storytelling."
—Robert Whitaker, author of On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

"During the Great Depression, the federal government paid out-of-work writers to capture American voices on paper. But Soul of a People is the first book to tell the stories of the Federal Writers themselves. In David Taylor's engaging narrative, this spunky, colorful, and entertaining crew comes back to life."
—Ann Banks, editor of First Person America, an anthology of oral histories collected by the Federal Writers' Project

"This intimate portrait of the Writers' Project, a gem of FDR's New Deal, is a nostalgic journey through America in the Depression Era. Familiar faces dot every corner, young writers from Studs Terkel to Richard Wright, John Cheever to Ralph Ellison. It's a journey well worth taking, a key formative moment in our literary common culture, well written and nicely researched."
—Kenneth D. Ackerman, author of Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties

"Long before Oprah and blogs, the WPA during the Great Depression of the 1930s gave America its first mass exercise in reading and writing—the Federal Writers' Project. Now David Taylor goes inside the project to give us intimate snapshots of the writers and what they saw and felt during that hard time. Soul of a People is a revealing and valuable resource."
—Nick Taylor, author of American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA

"David Taylor has added a perfect chapter to the amazing saga of the Federal Writers' Project, with vivid portraits of some of the men and women who produced the American Guide series, an unmatched collective portrait of a people battered but not beaten by the Great Depression. Soul of a People should be mandatory reading as the storm clouds of hard times hover over us again."
—Bernard Weisberger, editor of The WPA Guide to America

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470403808
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/9/2009
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 1,178,238
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

David A. Taylor wrote the article for Smithsonian that is the basis for this book and the Smithsonian/Channel HD special of the same title. He writes for the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and other publications, as well as scripts for television documentaries. His work has aired on the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and elsewhere. He is the author of the award-winning book Ginseng: The Divine Root and a book of fiction, Success: Stories. Visit www.davidataylor.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Douglas Brinkley Brinkley, Douglas

Prologue 1

Introduction At a Crossroads 5

1 The Writers' Project 9

2 Point of Departure: New York 23

3 Chicago and the Midwest 39

4 Gathering Folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem 75

5 Rising Up in the West: Idaho 97

6 Nailing a Freight on the Fly: Nebraska 111

7 Poetic Land, Pugnacious People: California 125

8 Raising the Dead in New Orleans 141

9 Cigars and Turpentine in Florida 161

10 American and Un-American: Back Around the Boroughs 189

11 Converging on Washington 207

12 Traveling Beyond 227

Appendix Resources for Readers and Travelers 231

Sources 235

Credits 251

Index 254

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