Soul of a People: Writing America's Story (2009)

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 problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media

Cast (7)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Patricia Clarkson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Studs Terkel

Self

S

Stetson Kennedy

Self

Douglas Brinkley

Self

J

Jonathan Holloway

R

Richard Ford

A

Amy Bloom

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