TY - BOOK AU - Borchert,Scott TI - Republic of detours: how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America SN - 0374298459 AV - E175.4 .W9 B67 2021 U1 - 973.917 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Federal Writers' Project KW - American guide series KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - New Deal, 1933-1939 KW - Travel writing KW - United States KW - History KW - Civilization KW - 1918-1945 KW - Intellectual life N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue -- Tour one : Henry Alsberg, Washington, DC -- Tour two : Vardis Fisher, Idaho -- Tour three : Nelson Algren, Chicago -- Tour four : Zora Neale Hurston, Florida -- Tour five : Richard Wright, New York City -- Tour six : Henry Alsberg and Martin Dies, Jr., Washington, DC -- Epilogue N2 - "A literary history of the Federal Writers Project"-- ER -