
First Person America
Voices of the Great Depression
Ann Banks(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 9. October 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-393-30781-8 (ISBN)
Description
Between 1938 and 1942 the Federal Writers' project set out to create a first-person portrait of America by sending young writers - many of whom later became famous - around the country to interview people from all occupations and backgrounds. This book presents 80 of these diverse life histories, including the stories of a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, recent immigrants to New York, a Key West smuggler, Chicago jazz musicians. Historian Eric Foner called "First Person America" the finest example yet of an increasingly important genre of oral history".
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-30781-8 (9780393307818)
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