Republic of detours : how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America /

Borchert, Scott, 1986-

Republic of detours : how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America / Scott Borchert. - First edition. - x, 385 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

"A literary history of the Federal Writers Project"--

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Federal Writers' Project.


American guide series.


United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.

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