TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirsch,Jerrold
TI  - Portrait of America: a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project 
SN  - 0807828173 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - E175.4.W9 H57 2003
U1  - 973.917 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Federal Writers' Project
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - United States
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1918-1945
N1  - 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?
ER  -