Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America

by Scott Borchert

Book Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the New Deal Book Award

An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters

The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious--and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374298459
• ISBN13: 9780374298456
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"