American-Made

This is sprawling tale of how the WPA came to be describing precursor programs and the elections that confirmed the popularity of New Deal programs. It goes into great detail about larger WPA projects, who was in charge, the kind of character they were, and how the press dealt with them.

I'll be honest, I like to think I like history and I read this because I feel like we could use a jobs program in the country and wanted to figure out how people were persuaded it was a good idea to try. I felt like this was more rambling and a coherent narrative didn't exist other than “Jobs were wanted and only Roosevelt had the foresight to give the people government jobs”