| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. By Robert D. Leighninger Jr. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xxx, 298 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57806-945-3.)
Even the Great Depression failed to bring New Orleans and Louisiana to their knees the way Hurricane Katrina did in August 2005. Despite the greater seriousness of the latter calamity, Robert D. Leighninger Jr.'s study illustrates how much larger and more comprehensive was the response of the federal government to the former. The buildings and infrastructure erected under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA) in fewer than nine years of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration endowed Louisiana with a rich architectural heritage, not to mention the pressing infrastructural needs they addressed, particularly for hospitals and schools.	1
The author's historical overviews of the various federal programs in Louisiana includes those of the Treasury Department and the Bureau of Public Roads, although his focus is the buildings produced under the auspices of the PWA. At the same time, Leighninger explores the state's complicated politics, including its colorful and difficult governor, Huey Long, and his complicated relationship with federal authorities, especially Harold Ickes, the PWA's administrator.	. . .

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