{"product_id":"talk-about-trouble-a-new-deal-portrait-of-virginians-in-the-great-depression-9780807845707","title":"Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow, ' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators all bear witness to the vast socioeconomic and cultural changes brought about by the Great Depression and the New Deal's responses to it. These never-published VWP narrative interviews, however, have remained largely unknown and unavailable to readers until now. \u003ci\u003eTalk about Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e presents 61 Writers' Project life histories that depict Virginia men and women, both blacks and whites, and offer a cross-section of ages, occupations, experiences, and cultural and class backgrounds. Headnotes set the context for each life history and introduce people and themes that link individual events and experiences. One hundred sixty photographs, most taken in the state by Farm Security Administration or Virginia WPA photographers, add graphic texture and backdrop to the stories and lives recounted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy J. Martin-Perdue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.03h x 7.87w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807845707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy J. Martin-Perdue has been a freelance writer for twenty years and is currently scholar-in-residence in the department of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Formerly a geologist, Charles L. Perdue Jr. has a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught in the departments of English and anthropology at the University of Virginia for the past twenty-four years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":66956742885491,"sku":"9780807845707","price":93.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_74dcde53-6aee-47c6-a068-e70dae88c160.jpg?v=1792581176","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/talk-about-trouble-a-new-deal-portrait-of-virginians-in-the-great-depression-9780807845707","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}