Witnesses to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement - Loftis, Anne
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Examines the artists who put a human face on the farmworkers' plight in California during the Great Depression, focusing on writer John Steinbeck, photographer Dorothea Lange, sociologist and author Paul Taylor, and journalist Carey McWilliams. Loftis probes the interplay between journalism and art in the 1930s, when both academics and artists felt an urgent need to be relevant in the face of enormous misery.

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Examines the artists who put a human face on the farmworkers' plight in California during the Great Depression, focusing on writer John Steinbeck, photographer Dorothea Lange, sociologist and author Paul Taylor, and journalist Carey McWilliams. Loftis probes the interplay between journalism and art in the 1930s, when both academics and artists felt an urgent need to be relevant in the face of enormous misery.
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Anne Loftis was born in New York City in 1922, graduated from Smith College in 1944, and worked as a journalist and researcher after moving to California in 1954. She was research assistant to sociologist Paul Taylor for many years and is the daughter of the noted historian Allan Nevins. She is the co-author of The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans During World War II, A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers, and the author of California, Where the Twain Did Meet.