Republic of detours : how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America

This book focuses on five individuals who were part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. We learn how the project impacted their lives, as well as back stories about the creation of the guides and pamphlets that highlighted the nation. The Los Angeles Public LIbrary owns many of the specific guidebooks that were produced under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, and therefore made the stories that Borchert dissected and discussed even more powerful.