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First-person America / edited and with an introd. by Ann Banks.
- Title
- First-person America / edited and with an introd. by Ann Banks.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980.
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- Description
- xxv, 287 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of 80 life histories, written between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writer's Projects, of men and women from all parts of the country.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Eighty narratives originally recorded by members of the Federal Writers' Project.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [273]-278.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Old times -- Immigrant lives -- The yards -- Industrial lore -- Monumental stone -- Rank and file -- Tobacco people -- Women on work -- Trouplers and pitchmen -- The jazz language -- Testifying.
- ISBN
- 0394413970 :
- LCCN
- ^^^80007660^//r832
- OCLC
- 6448346
- SCSB-9957277
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library