Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index.
Contents
The Civilian Conservation Corps : "Roosevelt's tree army" -- The Federal Art Project : "Art of the people, by the people, for the people" -- The Federal Writers' Project : "Telling Americans the American story" -- The Federal Music Project : "Music to our ears" -- The Federal Theatre Project : "Actors stage a comeback" -- Lenses of the Farm Security Administration : "Photographers of the common man" -- An America built to last : "Treasures standing and still in use" -- The Social Security Administration : "The New Deal's best deal" -- National parks and the New Deal : "America's great outdoors" -- Green towns, homesteads, and resettlement villages : "If you build it, they will come" -- Rural electric cooperatives : "Let there be light" -- Farm security initiatives : "The bread of life" -- The National Labor Relations Board : "Workers find friends in Washington" -- Federal deposit insurance : "Money in the bank" -- Historic records and presidential libraries : "Keeping track of America's history" -- Historical architecture surveys : "Tracing America's building and engineering heritage" -- Touched by the New Deal : "Hope and purpose for a lost generation."
