Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America

by Scott Borchert

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the New Deal Book Award

An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters

The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious--and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374298459

ISBN13:9780374298456

Release Date:June 2021

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.43 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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