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Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / Jerrold Hirsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Historiography.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
- Federal Writers' Project--History.
- Federal Writers' Project.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 1 Inherited Questions; Chapter 2 Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series; Chapter 3 A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays; Chapter 4 Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours; Part Two: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 5 Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project
- Chapter 6 Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History ResearchChapter 7 The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program; Chapter 8 Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History; Part Three: Denouement; Chapter 9 Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project; Chapter 10 Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943; Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
- LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890870032
- 9780807861660
- 0807861669
- OCLC:
- 821198677
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