Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America Romance_Gift_Guide " —Timothy Snyder

" —Timothy Snyder

Part memoir and part call to action

After an episode recording

Ninety Mile Beach

a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney

Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America Romance_Gift_Guide " —Timothy SnyderSoul 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