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Author Taylor, Nick, 1945-

Title American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work / Nick Taylor.

Imprint New York : Bantam Book, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.1377 T216a 2008    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  331.1377 T216a 2008 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 630 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-555) and index.
Contents Prologue -- In extremis -- Hope on the rise -- The dawn of the WPA -- Folly and triumph -- The arts programs -- The phantom of recovery -- The WPA under attack -- WPA : War Preparation Agency -- Epilogue : The legacy of the WPA -- Glossary -- Some highlights of the WPA -- A chronology : 1929-1946 -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary 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.
Subject United States. Works Progress Administration.
Job creation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
New Deal, 1933-1945.
Public works -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States. Works Progress Administration. (OCoLC)fst00558757
Depressions. (OCoLC)fst00890969
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Job creation. (OCoLC)fst00983666
Public works. (OCoLC)fst01083369
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780553802351 (hardocover)
0553802356 (hardocover)

 
    
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