Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
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- Runtime
- 92 mins
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media
Cast
- Patricia Clarkson
- Studs Terkel
- Stetson Kennedy
- Douglas Brinkley
- Jonathan Holloway
- Richard Ford
- Amy Bloom
Director
- Andrea Kalin
Producers
- Andrea Kalin
