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Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction,'anecdotal, opinionated, and altoget
San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city's culture, roadside attractions, and history—from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy
'San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,'according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recogniz
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and
In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers'Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. Thi
Originally published during the Great Depression, The WPA Guide nevertheless finds much to celebrate in the heartland of America. Nearly three dozen essays highlight Iowa's demography, economy, and culture but the heart of the book is a detailed trav
Autor:
Federal Writers' Project
Excerpt from The Oregon Trail, Us 30: The Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean (Classic Reprint)The Oregon Trail, third in the series Of main-highway guidebooks prepared by the Federal Writers'Project, presents a story particularly pertinent to our ti
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Federal Writers' Project
'The most original and admirable volume in the WPA America Guide Series.'—The New Yorker'New York Panorama is a joy … In swift and vigorous prose its pages offer a breathtaking view, long in visa, sharp and clear-cut in detail, of the world's gre
Publikováno v:
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 1938 Dec 01. 22(4), 305-330.
Externí odkaz:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40576586
Publikováno v:
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 1939 Mar 01. 23(1), 28-54.
Externí odkaz:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40576607