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100 1 $aQuinn, Susan.
245 10 $aFurious improvisation :$bhow the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times /$cSusan Quinn.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bWalker & Co. :$bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan,$c2008.
300 $a325 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-292) and index.
505 0 $aOn the train -- Harry -- Hallie -- Great plans for millions -- Ethiopia -- Triple-a plowed under -- Entr'acte 1: The CCC murder mystery -- The simple and the difficult -- Do you voodoo? -- It can't happen here -- Entr'acte 2: After the flood -- Under a powerful star -- The cradle will rock -- I'd rather be right -- Chants of the prairies -- The west -- Past is present -- Enter HUAC -- Marlowe's ghost -- An act of Congress -- Epilogue: Four febrile years.
520 $aThe Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA relief program into a platform for some of the most inventive and cutting-edge theater of its time. This daring experiment in government support of the arts electrified audiences with exciting, controversial productions. Its plays stirred up politicians by putting the spotlight on social injustice, and starred some of the greatest figures in twentieth-century American arts, including Orson Welles, John Houseman, and Sinclair Lewis. Susan Quinn brings to life the politics of this desperate era when FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and chain-smoking idealist Harry Hopkins furiously improvised programs to get millions of hungry, unemployed people back to work. Quinn's compelling story of politics and idealism reaches a climax with the rise of Martin Dies and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which turned the FTP into the first victim of a Red scare that would roil the nation for the next twenty years.--From publisher description.
610 20 $aFederal Theatre Project (U.S.)
610 10 $aUnited States.$bWork Projects Administration.
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