Read American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work Online
Authors: Nick Taylor
Tags: #General, #History, #United States, #Political Science, #20th Century, #Politics, #Business & Economics, #Careers, #Job creation, #Job creation - United States - History - 20th century, #Job Hunting, #Economic Policy, #Public Policy
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work (66 page)
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AMERICAN-MADE
A Bantam Book/March 2008
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2008 by Nick Taylor
Excerpt from Ernie Pyle column on 5. A Nation at Work: courtesy of Scripps-Howard Foundation
Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Nick, 1945–
American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA: when FDR put the nation to work/Nick Taylor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. United States. Works Progress Administration. 2. Job creation—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.
HD5724.T34 2008
331.13'77097309043—dc22 2007034563
eISBN: 978-0-553-90493-2
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