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008    080110s2008    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
010      2008001274 
020    9780802716989|qalkaline paper 
020    0802716989|qalkaline paper 
035    (OCoLC)ocn180751442 
035    (OCoLC)180751442 
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050 00 PN2270.F43|bQ56 2008 
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090    PN2270.F43 Q56 2008 
100 1  Quinn, Susan,|d1940-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n87852896 
245 10 Furious improvisation :|bhow the WPA and a cast of 
       thousands made high art out of desperate times /|cSusan 
       Quinn. 
250    1st U.S. ed. 
264  1 New York :|bWalker & Co. :|bDistributed to the trade by 
       Macmillan,|c2008. 
300    325 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and 
       index. 
505 0  On 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    The 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 10 United States.|bWork Projects Administration.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046793 
610 17 United States.|bWork Projects Administration.|2fast|0https
       ://id.worldcat.org/fast/543427 
610 20 Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79118140 
610 27 Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/537749 
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