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The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943

Jerre Mangione

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Description:For eight turbulent years, the New Deal kept literally thousands of writers from starvation in one of the most massive -- and explosive -- cultural aid programs the United States government has ever devised -- the Federal Writers' Project. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL is the tempestuous chronicle of this chapter in American sociopolitical history. Here is a story of poets and playwrights, geniuses and hacks, drunks and informers, writers such as Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, Conrad Aiken, Ralph Ellison -- none earning more than $100 a month, yet bringing forth astonishingly authentic, enduring literature.The Project was set up by the government as part of the Works Progress Administration to hire needy writers, actors, artists, and musicians -- all put to work, as WPA head Harry Hopkins commented, because "they've got to eat just like other people." Thousands of writers, thus kept from starvation during the Depression, were able to produce hundreds of books and pamphlets -- including more than fifty WPA State and Territory Guides -- and millions of words of unpublished source material and manuscripts.In THE DREAM AND THE DEAL, author Jerre Mangione makes wonderfully perceptive forays into the individual dramas -- some hilarious, some heartbreaking -- of the various state projects: he Missouri project, for example, headed by a hack politician, a woman who knew nothing of writing and cared even less; and the New York project, where in New York City conflicting views of left-wing writers soon flared into open rivalry.But out of all this turmoil came an extraordinary achievement. As Alfred Kazin wrote in a eulogy to the Project: "Out of the need to find something to say about every community and the country around it . . . there emerged an America unexampled in density and regional diversity." The Project became a symbol of the "reawakened American sense of its own history."This is part of the American experience that has never been properly told before -- but Mangione does it now, expertly, with drama, wit, and consummate authority. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL contains fifty-nine illustrations of the personalities and incidents in the book, and is complete with a selected checklist of the books and pamphlets produced by the Project, listings of the source material, documents and manuscripts consulted in preparation of the book, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. To get started finding The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: For eight turbulent years, the New Deal kept literally thousands of writers from starvation in one of the most massive -- and explosive -- cultural aid programs the United States government has ever devised -- the Federal Writers' Project. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL is the tempestuous chronicle of this chapter in American sociopolitical history. Here is a story of poets and playwrights, geniuses and hacks, drunks and informers, writers such as Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, Conrad Aiken, Ralph Ellison -- none earning more than $100 a month, yet bringing forth astonishingly authentic, enduring literature.The Project was set up by the government as part of the Works Progress Administration to hire needy writers, actors, artists, and musicians -- all put to work, as WPA head Harry Hopkins commented, because "they've got to eat just like other people." Thousands of writers, thus kept from starvation during the Depression, were able to produce hundreds of books and pamphlets -- including more than fifty WPA State and Territory Guides -- and millions of words of unpublished source material and manuscripts.In THE DREAM AND THE DEAL, author Jerre Mangione makes wonderfully perceptive forays into the individual dramas -- some hilarious, some heartbreaking -- of the various state projects: he Missouri project, for example, headed by a hack politician, a woman who knew nothing of writing and cared even less; and the New York project, where in New York City conflicting views of left-wing writers soon flared into open rivalry.But out of all this turmoil came an extraordinary achievement. As Alfred Kazin wrote in a eulogy to the Project: "Out of the need to find something to say about every community and the country around it . . . there emerged an America unexampled in density and regional diversity." The Project became a symbol of the "reawakened American sense of its own history."This is part of the American experience that has never been properly told before -- but Mangione does it now, expertly, with drama, wit, and consummate authority. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL contains fifty-nine illustrations of the personalities and incidents in the book, and is complete with a selected checklist of the books and pamphlets produced by the Project, listings of the source material, documents and manuscripts consulted in preparation of the book, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. To get started finding The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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