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First-person America / edited and with an introd. by Ann Banks.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
- United States--Biography.
- Oral history.
- Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap).
- Local Subjects:
- Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographie.
- Quelle.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1980.
- Summary:
- A collection of 80 life histories, written between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writer's Projects, of men and women from all parts of the country.
- Contents:
- Old times
- Immigrant lives
- The yards
- Industrial lore
- Monumental stone
- Rank and file
- Tobacco people
- Women on work
- Trouplers and pitchmen
- The jazz language
- Testifying.
- Notes:
- Eighty narratives originally recorded by members of the Federal Writers' Project.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has letter from publisher and Knopf Editorial fact sheet laid in.
- OCLC:
- 904251070
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