Reviews for The WPA Guides: Mapping America

The average rating for The WPA Guides: Mapping America based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-01 00:00:00 Matthew Chapel Chapel I love the original WPA guides and found this book detailing the history of the guides project, the individuality of each state's efforts, and the effort required to get them all published during the late 1930's interesting but of course not as good as the individual guides themselves.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-27 00:00:00 Ken Zabko 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:]...