American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, (Paperback)

from NewsieQ

Before I read this book, I was only minimally aware of the Works Progress Administration, FDR's jobs program during the Great Depression. Most genealogists who make their way to a county courthouse to find vital records or land documents benefit from the indexes created by WPA workers during the ...

from ALinNY458

This is a highly interesting and extremely well written popular history of a key element of FDR's New Deal - The Works Progress Administration. With the WPA and an alphabet soup of other government agencies FDR redefined the role of government as the servant of the people ready to help the downtr...

from NewsieQ

Before I read this book, I was only minimally aware of the Works Progress Administration, FDR's jobs program during the Great Depression. Most genealogists who make their way to a county courthouse to find vital records or land documents benefit from the indexes created by WPA workers during the ...

from ALinNY458

This is a highly interesting and extremely well written popular history of a key element of FDR's New Deal - The Works Progress Administration. With the WPA and an alphabet soup of other government agencies FDR redefined the role of government as the servant of the people ready to help the downtr...