The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943, Paperback/Jerre Mangione

Almost 7000 authors--including Richard Wright, John Cheever, and Saul Bellow--were employed by this federal program, which saved many literary careers during the Depression and which also produced the best state guidebooks ever written. About author(s): Jerre Mangione is a retired professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of the bestselling Mount Allegro and several other books and novels.