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From the Publisher
A fascinating and important book that virtually any student of the American experience will profit by reading.
Journal of American History
A massive and handsome book, fittingly illustrated with Farm Security Administration photographs.
Georgia Historical Quarterly
Their fascinating and valuable contribution is to give voices, faces, and feelings to these typical Virginians surviving troubled times.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
A collection of superb oral histories recalling the harsh reality of surviving during the Depression years.
Roanoke Times
An engaging visit with people struggling with adversity decades ago.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Overview
'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow,' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators all bear witness to the vast socioeconomic and cultural changes brought about by the Great Depression and the New Deal's responses to it. These never-published VWP narrative interviews, however, have remained largely unknown and unavailable to readers until ...