Showing Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 272 Publisher: John Wiley Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a Turning Point This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later. and included John Cheever. Ralph Ellison. Zora Neale Hurston. Richard Wright. and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides . Through striking images and firsthand accounts. the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren. truckers. Chicago fishmongers. Cuban cigar makers. a Florida midwife. Neaskan meatpackers. and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections. archives. and recent biographies. a new picture has emerged in the last de...