The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
by
Sharon Ann Musher
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy...