Résumé:
Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Lemann has published five books! most recently Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006). He has written extensively for The New York Times! The New York Review of Books! The New Republic! Slate and American Heritage and has worked in documentary television with Blackside! Inc.! Frontline! the Discovery Channel! and the BBC. Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for The New York Times. In 2001! he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's series exploring racial attitudes across contemporary America. He is the author of four books! including The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)! which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2006. Francine Prose is the author of 13 books of fiction! including the novel Blue Angel (2001)! a finalist for the National Book Award and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists they Inspired (2003). A recipient of numerous grants and awards! including Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships! she was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Klappentext Each volume in this brand new series, presents 50 striking images by an individual photographer from the Library of Congress' Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) collection, recreating a picture of American life prior to World War II. Zusammenfassung Presents an historically significant collection of photographs that provide a comprehensive view of American life from 1935 to 1944 during the Great Depression. This title also presents a visual record of agricultural and urban centres in the South! Mid-West and Western United States.