Scott Borchert
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression, and employed some of the biggest names in American letters
The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious, and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a series of guidebooks to the then forty-eight...