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Author:

Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-

Title:

Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / Jerrold Hirsch.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Federal Writers' Project--History.
United States--Historiography.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
Federal Writers' Project--Histoire.
Américains.
États-Unis--Historiographie.
États-Unis--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
États-Unis--Civilisation--1918-1945.
New Deal.
Schrijvers.
Nationale identiteit.
Cultuur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I: Romantic nationalism, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 1. Inherited questions -- 2. Visions and constituencies: introducing and writing the American guide series -- 3. A new deal view of American history and art: The federal writer's project guidebook essays -- 4. Picturesque pluralism: the guidebook tours -- II: Modernity, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 3. Long live participation!: ethnicity, race, and the federal writer's project -- 6. Before Columbia: the federal writers' project and American oral history research -- 7. The people must be heard: W.T. Couch and the southern life history program -- 8. Toward a marriage of true minds: the federal writers' project and the writing of southern folk history -- III: Denouement -- 9. Conflicting definitions of America: the dies committee and the writers' project -- 10. Reform, culture, and patriotism: the writers' project becomes the writers' program, 1939-1943 -- Have you discovered America?

ISBN:

9780807854891 (pbk.)
0807854891 (pbk.)
9780807828175 (cloth)
0807828173 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51977835

LCCN:

2003006858

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)