Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait

Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9780253345691
ISBN-13 : 0253345693
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait by : George T. Blakey

Download or read book Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait written by George T. Blakey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the New Deal program that produced the first guide to Indiana.

Subsidizing Culture

Subsidizing Culture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781351487726
ISBN-13 : 1351487728
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Subsidizing Culture by : James T. Bennett

Download or read book Subsidizing Culture written by James T. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the arts, the federal government was affirming their importance to the nation.Subsidizing Culture examines the development of and controversies surrounding federal programs that directly benefit writers, artists, and intellectuals. James T. Bennett examines four cases of such support: the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects; the vigorous promotion, in the post-World War II and early Cold War eras, of abstract expressionism and other forms of modern art by the US government; the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which has fortified its position as the preeminent arts bureaucracy; and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEA's less embattled twin, which funnels monies to scholars.Bennett concentrates on the creation of and the debate over these government programs, and he gives special attention to the critics, who are usually ignored. He reminds us that the chorus of anti-subsidy voices over the years has included such disparate figures as writers William Faulkner and John Updike; artists John Sloan and Wheeler Williams; and social critics Jacques Barzun and H.L. Mencken.

Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR

Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 600
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ISBN-10 : 9780253014733
ISBN-13 : 0253014735
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR by : Dean J. Kotlowski

Download or read book Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR written by Dean J. Kotlowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “definitive biography of Indiana Gov. Paul V. McNutt” shows the politician’s “importance on the national stage" through the Great Depression and WWII (Indianapolis Star). The 34th Governor of Indiana, head of the WWII Federal Security Agency, and ambassador to the Philippines, Paul V. McNutt was a major figure in mid-twentieth century American politics whose White House ambitions were effectively blocked by his friend and rival, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This historical biography explores McNutt’s life, his era, and his relationship with FDR. McNutt’s life underscores the challenges and changes Americans faced during an age of economic depression, global conflict, and decolonialization. With extensive research and detail, biographer Dean J. Kotlowski sheds light on the expansion of executive power at the state level during the Great Depression, the theory and practice of liberalism as federal administrators understood it in the 1930s and 1940s, the mobilization of the American home front during World War II, and the internal dynamics of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 1074
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ISBN-10 : 9780253021168
ISBN-13 : 0253021162
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two by : Philip A. Greasley

Download or read book Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two written by Philip A. Greasley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Hoosiers

Hoosiers
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780253013101
ISBN-13 : 0253013100
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hoosiers by : James H. Madison

Download or read book Hoosiers written by James H. Madison and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of this Midwestern state and its people, past and present: “An entertaining and fast read.” ―Indianapolis Star Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove Indians, sell them land, and bring democracy. Down to the present, Hoosiers have remained wary of government power and have taken care to guard their tax dollars and their personal independence. Yet the people of Indiana have always accommodated change, exchanging log cabins and spinning wheels for railroads, cities, and factories in the nineteenth century, automobiles, suburbs, and foreign investment in the twentieth. The present has brought new issues and challenges, as Indiana’s citizens respond to a rapidly changing world. James H. Madison’s sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America’s distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.

American Culture in the 1930s

American Culture in the 1930s
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780748629770
ISBN-13 : 0748629777
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Culture in the 1930s by : David Eldridge

Download or read book American Culture in the 1930s written by David Eldridge and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.

From Pioneering to Persevering

From Pioneering to Persevering
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Publisher : Purdue University Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 1557534535
ISBN-13 : 9781557534538
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis From Pioneering to Persevering by : Paul Salstrom

Download or read book From Pioneering to Persevering written by Paul Salstrom and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the issue is a societal one with a greater population involved than just the farmers themselves.