Another great new book on FDR’s New Deal

May 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm | Posted in David Taylor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Cheever, New Deal, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Studs Terkel | Leave a comment

Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor.
Here’s my blurb: “This intimate portrait of the Writers’ Project, a gem of FDR’s New Deal, is a nostalgic journey through America in the Depression Era. Familiar faces dot every corner, young writers from Studs Terkel to Richard Wright, John Cheever to Ralph Ellison. It’s a journey well worth taking, a key formative moment in our literary common culture, well written and nicely researched.”

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