... capital, man has a right/obligation to use this capital for constant self-advancement, and the social order should permit and encourage this continual increase of personal wealth (pg. 6) It is through these basic beliefs that Worster claims the plainsmen ignored all environmental limits, much like the brokers and ... Street ignored a top-heavy economy. Worster explains that our business-oriented society began to transform farming into a mass-producing industrial machine, becoming another excess of free enterprise that not even Roosevelt's "New Deal" could remedy. The "dirty thirties," as...

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... buildings, 17,794 sculptures displayed in community art centers, and the continuation of the flourishing of mural art as a means of self-expression. The art of literature was also greatly influenced and encouraged by the WPA. The Federal Writers Program supported author John Steinbeck to write his novel "The Grapes of Wrath", an eye opening view of the Great Depression. This seemingly unending support proved to cultivate a sort ... of people's art that this country had not experienced before nor since the time of the WPA. While the art and literature of the WPA was always known for the ...

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