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Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

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In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the…

DirectorAndrea Kalin
ProducersAndrea Kalin·Joy Galane

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Cast · Directed by Andrea Kalin

PCPatricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson
Self - Narrator (voice)
STStuds Terkel
Studs Terkel
Self
SK
Stetson Kennedy
Self
DBDouglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley
Self
JH
Jonathan Holloway
RF
Richard Ford
AB
Amy Bloom

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