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Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project /
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word ""American""? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word ""American""? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the immediate context of the FWP was work relief, national FWP officials developed programs that spoke to much larger and longer-standing debates over the nature of American identity and culture and the very |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807861669 9780807861660 0807828173 9780807828175 |