Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0807845701 ISBN 13: 9780807845707

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996

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Their fascinating and valuable contribution is to give voices, faces, and feelings to these typical Virginians surviving troubled times."Virginia Magazine of History and Biography" A massive and handsome book, fittingly illustrated with Farm Security Administration photographs."Georgia Historical Quarterly" "Their fascinating and valuable contribution is to give voices, faces, and feelings to these typical Virginians surviving troubled times."Virginia Magazine of History and Biography"" A fascinating and important book that virtually any student of the American experience will profit by reading."Journal of American History" "A massive and handsome book, fittingly illustrated with Farm Security Administration photographs."Georgia Historical Quarterly"" A collection of superb oral histories recalling the harsh reality of surviving during the Depression years."Roanoke Times" An engaging visit with people struggling with adversity decades ago."Richmond Times-Dispatch"

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'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow,' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators all bear witness to the vast socioeconomic and cultural changes brought about by the Great Depression and the New Deal's responses to it. These never-published VWP narrative interviews, however, have remained largely unknown and unavailable to readers until now. Talk about Trouble presents 61 Writers' Project life histories that depict Virginia men and women, both blacks and whites, and offer a cross-section of ages, occupations, experiences, and cultural and class backgrounds. Headnotes set the context for each life history and introduce people and themes that link individual events and experiences. One hundred sixty photographs, most taken in the state by Farm Security Administration or Virginia WPA photographers, add graphic texture and backdrop to the stories and lives recounted.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807845701
• ISBN 13: 9780807845707
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 516
• Herausgeber: Martin-Perdue Nancy J., Perdue Jr. Charles L.