The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture
by
Wendy Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
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...