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Cargando... American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Workpor Nick Taylor
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Although it took me forever to read this book (because other things kept getting in the way of my reading), I really liked it. The parallels with today were uncanny! There were several times when the political quotes I was reading could have been lifted right out of today's newspapers. I liked the way the author gave us a lot of background to the depression, although Herbert Hoover really takes a beating. One of the other aspects of the book I enjoyed was learning about the WPA Arts, Theater, and Music programs. The author gives us breakout chapters about some of the WPA projects, and also chapters about some "ordinary" people who became WPA workers. I'm anxious now to research my own community and see if there are any WPA projects here. ( ) This exhaustive (but not exhausting) history of the Works Progress Administration demonstrates the incredible scope of a remarkable program that provided a dignified lifeline to millions of desperate Americans during the Great Depression. Author (and W.C.U. alumnus), Nick Taylor also shows how the WPA gave the nation a great but under-appreciated return on investment. The book contains many fascinating biographical sketches ranging from the influential head of the WPA, Harry Hopkins to _ Mills of Jackson County who was one of the workers involved in local projects. [Chris Wilcox CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 9/09] Covers the years leading up to the Depression, especially economic policy of Hoover, through the early New Deal programs of FDR into the actual WPA and ending with the Program’s demise amidst the second World War. Chapters shift between national politics, specific programs in the WPA, and individuals lives before, during, and after WPA involvement. Mild profanity (SOB, goddamn), mention of venereal disease. This is a highly interesting and extremely well written popular history of a key element of FDR's New Deal - The Works Progress Administration. With the WPA and an alphabet soup of other government agencies FDR redefined the role of government as the servant of the people ready to help the downtrodden and unemployed and restore hope in a time of great calamity. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, and employed 8 and a half million men and women. The agency combined the urgency of putting people back to work with a vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports, but also performed concerts, staged plays, and painted murals. Sixty years later, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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