The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times

Quinn, Susan

ISBN 10: 0802716989 / ISBN 13: 9780802716989

Verlag: Walker Books, 2008

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Inhaltsangabe:

A history of the WPA's Federal Theater Project in the 1930s traces the role of project leader Hallie Flanagan in transforming the Roosevelt administration relief effort into a platform for some of performing art's most inventive and controversial achievements. 25,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Susan Quinn is the author of two award-winning biographies, about Marie Curie and Karen Horney, as well as Human Trials, which recounts the emotion-laden process of developing a drug for a difficult disease. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a...
Verlag: Walker Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good