American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work (66 page)

ALSO BY NICK TAYLOR

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AMERICAN-MADE

A Bantam Book/March 2008

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New York, New York

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Copyright © 2008 by Nick Taylor

Excerpt from Ernie Pyle column on 5. A Nation at Work: courtesy of Scripps-Howard Foundation

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Taylor, Nick, 1945–

American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA: when FDR put the nation to work/Nick Taylor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. United States. Works Progress Administration. 2. Job creation—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.

HD5724.T34 2008

331.13'77097309043—dc22         2007034563

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eISBN: 978-0-553-90493-2

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