American-made The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : when FDR Put the Nation to Work

A definitive history of FDR's New Deal looks at the origins of the Works Progress Administration in the dark days of the Great Depression, examining the progress, people, politics, and development of the WPA from 1935 to 1943 and assessing the enduring influence of the controversial program and its legacy in terms of American social policy and the country's physical landscape. 75,000 first printing.