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Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

Name: Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Director: Andrea Kalin
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-09-06
Duration: 92 min
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, Douglas Brinkley, Jonathan Holloway

20091h 32mDirected by Andrea Kalin

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 writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media

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