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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 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
Directed by Andrea Kalin

Patricia Clarkson
Self - Narrator (voice)

Studs Terkel
Self

Stetson Kennedy
Self

Douglas Brinkley
Self

Jonathan Holloway

Richard Ford

Amy Bloom
Riding the Rails
1997