The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project, 1935-1943

by Patricia Mangione

Overview

Almost 7000 authors--including Richard Wright, John Cheever, and Saul Bellow--were employed by this federal program, which saved many literary careers during the Depression and which also produced the best state guidebooks ever written.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815604150
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	06/28/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 7.53(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Jerre Mangione is a retired professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of the bestselling Mount Allegro and several other books and novels.

Editorial Reviews

A marvelous blend of administrative history studded with New Deal personalities and personal memoir. . . . Splendid.-- "Kirkus Reviews"

A scrupulously researched history. . . . Especially attractive about Mr. Mangione's book is the sense of perspective--a literary as well as a political perspective--he brings to the subject.-- "The New York Times Book Review"

The best record we are likely to have of a rowdy, idealistic, sometimes farcical experiment that failed, yet succeeded too.-- "The New Republic"

From the Publisher

A scrupulously researched history.. Especially attractive about Mr. Mangione's book is the sense of perspective-a literary as well as a political perspective-he brings to the subject.

The New York Times Book Review

The best record we are likely to have of a rowdy, idealistic, sometimes farcical experiment that failed, yet succeeded too.

The New Republic - Malcolm Cowley