Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project Book

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Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project
Written by author Jerrold Hirsch
Published by University of North Carolina Press, The, October 2003
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad

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Preface
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project
Ch. 1 Inherited Questions 17
Ch. 2 Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series 41
Ch. 3 A New Deal View of American History of Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays 63
Ch. 4 Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours 81
Pt. 2 Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project
Ch. 5 Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project 107
Ch. 6 Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History Research 141
Ch. 7 The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program 161
Ch. 8 Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History 179
Pt. 3 Denouement
Ch. 9 Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project 197
Ch. 10 Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943 213
Epilogue: Have You Discovered America? 229
Notes 239
Index 283

Title: Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project

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Would have given it four stars but it is a bit slow in the beginning. I love this period of history. Good read.

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