A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice 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 seri.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice 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