Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
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 writer...
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Patricia Clarkson
Self - Narrator (voice)
Studs Terkel
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Stetson Kennedy
Self
Douglas Brinkley
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Jonathan Holloway
Richard Ford
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