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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Cultural Work of Guidebooks | 3 |
| 2 | The Federal Writers' Project | 19 |
| 3 | Idaho: Vardis Fisher, Local Hero | 37 |
| 4 | Katharine Kellock's Highway Route Series: The View from the Road | 64 |
| 5 | New York City: The View from Rockefeller Center versus the View from the Sidewalk | 92 |
| 6 | North Carolina: Local Knowledge, Local Color | 123 |
| 7 | Missouri: Recovering Voices of Dissent | 162 |
| Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Guidebooks | 187 | |
| Notes | 209 | |
| Works Cited | 225 | |
| Index | 237 |
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Ken Zabko
reviewed The WPA Guides: Mapping America on November 27, 2014 The WPA Guides: Mapping America
I read this book for a class that I am taking, and to be frank I did not like it that much. The book focuses on the second rising of the KKK, basically its revival in 1915, and not the original movement itself. What I found extremely irritating is that the majority of the data have been extracted from the KKK's own newspaper ˆThe Imperial Night-Hawkˆ.
It does provide a very different view on KKK - it offers a macrostructural framework of analysis, and the book tries to elucidate the three different components that incited the KKK's mobilization. McVeigh poses a new social movement analysis theory "the power devaluation model" through which he tries to explain how privileged groups, when feeling threatened politically, economically, and socially by other groups try to preserve or regain their privileges.
It's an interesting read to some extent, but I got annoyed from the lack of historical background for the general reader [such as myself:]...
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