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Remember those times, about 5 years ago, when everyone thought that books would slowly disappear as people took to reading texts for free online and on nifty digital reading devices? Well, since then a surprisingly top-shelf library of free online books has acrued thanks to Project Gutenberg (Google Books, meanwhile, has been a big disappointment).
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While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]