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A history of the WPA's Federal Theater Project in the 1930s traces the role of project leader Hallie Flanagan in transforming the Roosevelt administration relief effort into a platform for some of performing art's most inventive and controversial achievements. 25,000 first printing.

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Susan Quinn is the author of two award-winning biographies, about Marie Curie and Karen Horney, as well as Human Trials, which recounts the emotion-laden process of developing a drug for a difficult disease. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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  • PublisherWalker & Co
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0802716989
  • ISBN 13 9780802716989
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages325

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