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The WPA Guide to New Jersey

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342281
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to New Jersey written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The Granite State has a rich history and varied landscape, beautifully presented in the WPA Guide to New Hampshire. The driving tours highlight the White Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, and the coast near Portsmouth. This New Hampshire guide also has traditional photographs of churches, landscapes, and colonial houses which give readers a feel for life in New England in the early 20th century.

The WPA Guide to 1930's New Jersey

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to 1930's New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political history-one which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legislation, radio and government hearings. All of these methods illuminate this period of state transformation, and perceptions of that emergent state, in the years of the first New Deal. The creation of G-men and gangsters as cultural heroes in this period not only explores the Depression-era obsession with crime and celebrity, but it also lends insight on how citizens understood a nation undergoing large political and social changes. Anxieties about crime today have become a familiar route for the creation of new government agencies and the extension of state authority. It is important to remember the original "war on crime" in the 1930s-and the opportunities it afforded to New Dealers and established bureaucrats like J. Edgar Hoover-as scholars grapple with the ways states assert influence over populations, local authority, and party politics while they pursue goals such as reducing popular violence and protecting private property.

The WPA Guide to 1930s New Jersey

Author : WPA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813514659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to 1930s New Jersey written by WPA and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail

Author : Mark Di Ionno
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527703
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail written by Mark Di Ionno and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, this book is the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State.

American Guides

Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635797X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book American Guides written by Wendy Griswold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.

The 1929 Bunion Derby

Author : Charles B. Kastner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081561036X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The 1929 Bunion Derby written by Charles B. Kastner and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the “Bunion Derby” by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York City to Los Angeles. Among this group, two brilliant runners, Johnny Salo of Passaic, New Jersey, and Pete Gavuzzi of England, emerged to battle for the $25,000 first prize along the mostly unpaved roads of 1929 America, with each man pushing the other to go faster as the lead switched back and forth between them. To pay the prize money, race director Charley Pyle cobbled together a traveling vaudeville company, complete with dancing debutantes, an all-girl band wearing pilot outfits, and blackface comedians, all housed under the massive show tent that Pyle hoped would pack in audiences. Kastner’s engrossing account, often told from the perspective of the participants, evokes the remarkable physical challenge the runners experienced and clearly bolsters the argument that the last Bunion Derby was the greatest long-distance footrace of all time.

Historic Themes and Resources Within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail

Author : Kimberly R. Sebold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Themes and Resources Within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail written by Kimberly R. Sebold and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore

Author : Peter Genovese
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978831978
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore written by Peter Genovese and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).

Resorts & Recreation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resorts & Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Withdrawals of Ground Water and Surface Water in New Jersey, 1991-92

Author : John P. Nawyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Withdrawals of Ground Water and Surface Water in New Jersey, 1991-92 written by John P. Nawyn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fieldworks

Author : Lytle Shaw
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357327
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Fieldworks written by Lytle Shaw and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how subsequent poets sought to ground such inquiries in concrete social formations—to in effect live the poetics of place: Gary Snyder in his back-to-the-land familial compound, Kitkitdizze; Amiri Baraka in a black nationalist community in Newark; Robert Creeley and the poets of Bolinas, California, in the capacious “now” of their poet-run town. Turning to the work of Robert Smithson—who called one of his essays an “appendix to Paterson,” and who in turn has exerted a major influence on poets since the 1970s—Shaw then traces the emergence of site-specific art in relation both to the poetics of place and to the larger linguistic turn in the humanities, considering poets including Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, and Lisa Robertson. By putting the poetics of place into dialog with site-specificity in art, Shaw demonstrates how poets and artists became experimental explicators not just of concrete locations and their histories, but of the discourses used to interpret sites more broadly. It is this dual sense of fieldwork that organizes Shaw’s groundbreaking history of site-specific poetry.

Hiking New Jersey

Author : Paul Decoste
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076275771X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Hiking New Jersey written by Paul Decoste and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty hikes for all abilities are featured in this hiking guide to the Garden State of New Jersey.

Los Angeles in the 1930s

Author : WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268830
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles in the 1930s written by WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.

Backroads, New Jersey

Author : Mark Di Ionno
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813531335
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Backroads, New Jersey written by Mark Di Ionno and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Backroads, New Jersey, Di Ionno leads readers off the congested interstates with their commonplace scenery to the seldom-explored secondary roads, where the real life of the state can be found. These inter-county or 500 series roads are a 6,788-mile network of mostly one-lane highways. Marked by blue-and-yellow five-sided shields bearing county names, they make up more than 20 percent of New Jersey's public roads. They are never the fastest or most direct way to get anywhere, but when you break out of the towns and hit the country, they are a pleasure to drive.

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Author : Gretchen Sorin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495704
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.

Encyclopedia of New Jersey

Author : Maxine N. Lurie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813533252
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of New Jersey written by Maxine N. Lurie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Garden State can now be found in one place. This encyclopaedia contains a wealth of information from New Jersey's prehistory to the present covering architecture, arts, biographies, commerce, arts, municipalities and much more.

Soul of a People

Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470885882
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Soul of a People written by David A. Taylor and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.