Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project /
Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-
Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / by Jerrold Hirsch. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003. - xii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-281) and index.
Part I. Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 1. Inherited Questions -- 2. Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series -- 3. A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays -- 4. Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours. Part II: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 5. Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project -- 6. Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History Research -- 7. The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program -- 8. Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History. Part III: Denouement : 9. Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project -- 10. Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943. Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?
0807828173 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003006858
Federal Writers' Project--History.
National characteristics, American.
United States--Historiography.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
E175.4.W9 / H57 2003
973.917
Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / by Jerrold Hirsch. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003. - xii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-281) and index.
Part I. Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 1. Inherited Questions -- 2. Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series -- 3. A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays -- 4. Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours. Part II: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 5. Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project -- 6. Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History Research -- 7. The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program -- 8. Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History. Part III: Denouement : 9. Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project -- 10. Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943. Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?
0807828173 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003006858
Federal Writers' Project--History.
National characteristics, American.
United States--Historiography.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
E175.4.W9 / H57 2003
973.917