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Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts. By Christine Bold. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-538-X. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-539-8.)
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration knows that the Massachusetts project was fraught with controversy for both its boldness and timidity in depicting the state's troubled history and diverse population. Now we have a splendid examination of that endeavor written by the author of a broader work, The WPA Guides: Mapping America (1999). . . .
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