02775cam a22003734a 4500 6855591 OSt 20151202130710.0 080110s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng 2008001274 9780802716989 (alk. paper) 0802716989 (alk. paper) 40015680038 (OCoLC)ocn180751442 (OCoLC)180751442 (NNC)6855591 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP C#P OrLoB-B n-us--- PN2270.F43 Q56 2008 792.0973 22 Quinn, Susan. Furious improvisation : how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008. 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-292) and index. Ch. 1. On the Train -- Ch. 2. Harry -- Ch. 3. Hallie -- Ch. 4. Great Plans for Millions -- Ch. 5. Ethiopia -- Ch. 6. Triple-A Plowed Under -- Entr'acte 1. The CCC Murder Mystery -- Ch. 7. The Simple and the Difficult -- Ch. 8. Do You Voodoo? -- Ch. 9. It Can't Happen Here -- Entr'acte 2. After the Flood -- Ch. 10. Under a Powerful Star -- Ch. 11. The Cradle Will Rock -- Entr'acte 3. I'd Rather Be Right -- Ch. 12. Chants of the Prairies -- Ch. 13. The West -- Ch. 14. Past Is Present -- Ch. 15. Enter HUAC -- Ch. 16. Marlowe's Ghost -- Ch. 17. An Act of Congress -- Epilogue: Four Febrile Years. "In Furious Improvisation, Susan Quinn brings to life the challenges of a desperate era when FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the tough-talking idealist Harry Hopkins furiously improvised programs to get millions of hungry, unemployed people back to work. Quinn's compelling story of politics and creativity reaches a dramatic climax with the rise of Martin Dies and his newly formed House Un-American Activities Committee, which turned the Federal Theatre Project into the first victim of a red scare that would roil the nation for the next twenty years." "Furious Improvisation is a portrait of the turbulent 1930s, rich in humor and anecdotes that combine to tell not only the story of the theatre project but also the Great Depression and government intervention in a time of national peril, a time when the still-pressing issues of discrimination, injustice, and the meaning of liberty commanded center stage."--BOOK JACKET. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) United States. Work Projects Administration. TOC lcc BK 20080827 a rad1 MPS 251702 251702 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2015-12-02 0 PN2270.F43 Q56 2008 20157895 2015-12-02 2015-12-02 BK