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Furious improvisation : how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn.
Van Pelt Library PN2270.F43 Q56 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinn, Susan, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal Theatre Project (U.S.).
- United States. Work Projects Administration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
- Contents:
- On the train
- Harry
- Hallie
- Great plans for millions
- Ethiopia
- Triple-a plowed under
- Entr'acte 1: The CCC murder mystery
- The simple and the difficult
- Do you voodoo?
- It can't happen here
- Entr'acte 2: After the flood
- Under a powerful star
- The cradle will rock
- I'd rather be right
- Chants of the prairies
- The west
- Past is present
- Enter HUAC
- Marlowe's ghost
- An act of Congress
- Epilogue: Four febrile years.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802716989
- 0802716989
- OCLC:
- 180751442
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