Books of Interest

	A Promise to All Generations: Stories and Essays about Social Security and Frances Perkins Breiseth, Christopher and Downey, Kirstin, editors, Frances Perkins Center, 2011. Paper. This book is a collection of essays by well-known authorities and stories by Americans about the impact of Social Security on their lives. Authors include Nancy Altman, Jonathan Ball, Adam Cohen, Larry DeWitt, Kirsten Downey, Jamie Galbraith, Teresa Ghilarducci, June Hopkins, Eric Kingson, Donn Mitchell, Barack Obama, James Roosevelt, Jr., and others. Co-editor Christopher Breiseth is an NNDPA board member. Price: $19.95. Available on-line here, or contact the center at (207) 208-8955 or FrancesPerkinsCenter.org.
	She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker O'Farrell, Brigid, Cornell University Press, October, 2010. Cloth, 304 pages Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild for more than 25 years. "She Was One of Us" tells for the first time the story of her deep and lasting ties to the American labor movement. O'Farrell has a masters degree from Harvard University and is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Industrial and Labor Relations Association, and the National Writers' Union, UAW Local 1981. Price: $29.95. Available from Cornell University Press, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.
	Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works Myers-Lipton, Scott, Paradigm Publishers, 2009, 160 pp. Paperback price: $17.99, or if bought in quantities of 50 or more, $8.99. For more information, contact the author at 505-508-5382.
	Norvelt: A New Deal Subsistence Homestead Schimizzi, Sandra Wolk and Wolk, Valeria Sofranko, Arcadia Publishing, February, 2010. $21.99. In 1933, the town of Norvelt became the fourth of 99 planned subsistence homestead communities subsidized by the federal government as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act for dislocated miners and industrial workers. The American Field Service Committee was recruited to implement and build the subsistence project and established a work camp in the summer of 1934. More than 1,850 people applied for 250 lots, and the first 1,200 homesteaders helped build their own homes on a lease-to-purchase agreement. Homes were equipped with a grape arbor, 3.4 acres of land, and chicken coops. Cooperatively, homesteaders established community garden plots and raised livestock, hogs, and chickens. Through vintage photographs "Norvelt: A New Deal Subsistence Homestead" celebrates the remarkable life transformation the homesteaders were able to experience during the town's formative years.
	Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits Gordon, Linda, W. W. Norton & Company, October, 2009 (hardback), October, 2010 (paperback). The hardcover edition is 560 pages and costs $35. The paperback version is 536 pages and costs $19.95 This comprehensive biography of the iconic New Deal photographer includes many examples of her work.
	Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon Munro, Sarah Baker. Timber Press, Portland, OR. July 2009. ISBN: 978-0-88192-856-3 224 pp., 110 color photos, 90 b/w both by Aaron Johanson. Foreword by Richard Moe. 8 1/2 x 10, hardcover. $34.95 Orders can be sent to publicity@timberpress.com. Munro is considered the historian of Timberline Lodge by the Friends of Timberline and is also an NNDPA board member.
	The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia Bindas, Kenneth, Danver, Steven L., Leab, Daniel, Leeson, Robert, Rohe, J. Simon, Stein, Alan Harris, Editors. ABC-CLIO Publisher. 2009. 2 volumes, 792 pp. ISBN 1598841548. $195.00. Stein is an NNDPA board member.
	The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration Cohen, Stu. David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, MA. 2008. 208 pp., 175 photos. ISBN 978-1-56792-340-7. For more information, visit the publisher's site.
	New Deal Art in Arizona Fahlman, Betsy. University of Arizona Press. 2009. 240 pp., 7 x 10. 100 b/w photos, 1 map. ISBN: 978-0-8165-2292-7, $49.95. (Use the code “FLR” and take 20% off price. Contact at 1-800-426-3797.) Fahlman is a professor of Art History at Arizona State University. She is one of the directors of the Southwest Art History Annual Conference held each October in Taos, NM, and a member of the NNDPA.
	The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration Book orders can be sent to Kathryn Flynn at newdeal@cybermesa.com or P.O. Box 602, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Cost $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping. 168 pp. Book provides an “easy-read” overview of various nationwide New Deal projects, even some of the lesser-known ones. Many color photographs and graphics, good reference lists and information. Book Size--9 1/4” x 10 1/4”
	Posters for the People Book includes nearly 500 of the best and most striking posters from the New Deal’s Federal Art Project. Roughly 125 of them have never been catalogued before by the federal government and will be new additions to the WPA LIVING ARCHIVE, a virtual archive that is to be launched in October. Order the book by sending $50 to Design for Social Impact, 525 S. 4th St, Studio 588, Philadelphia, PA 19147. For more info, email ennis@dfsi.org.

DVDs

"Bernard Zakheim's Living Art, WPA Murals in San Francisco and New Deal Art" Margot Smith, Videomaker. Off Center Video, 1300A Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709

"Green Towns USA: A New Deal" Documentary directed by June Finfer.

"Celebrating the Antiquities Act",  Speech at 2005 Saving Places Conference, Denver, CO. Colorado Preservation Inc., Recorded by Backcountry Productions, Longmont, CO 80501

"FDR: A Presidency Revealed"- 2 disks  Source unknown

"Camp Forgotten: Michigan CCC Camps". Pare Lorentz Film Center at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.

"Sights and Sounds of the FSA" Pare Lorentz film Center At FDR Presidential Library.

"New Deal for Artists. 1979 ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL WPA PROJECTS 1935-42" B/W/color; in 4 parts, 45 min. each.

Part I The Federal Theater

Part II The Federal Writers Project

Part III The Federal Arts Project

Part IV The Documentary Photography of the Farm Security Administration

Videos

"American Pageant Class" taught by Mary Palmer and Perry Lee. Clearing the Dust: The Great Depression. Bismarck, N.D.: Century High School, May 1998.

"National Geographic Society Educational Video Presentations" 1929-1941: The Great Depression. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1990.

"Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Home Video. The American Experience---Surviving the Dust Bowl." Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1998.

"Teaching with Historic Places" Introductory video on the program provided by the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Services, 2002.