Desc: Soul of a People: Writing America's Story: Directed by Andrea Kalin. With Amy Bloom, Vince Brown, Patricia Clarkson, Juanett T. Davis. In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People.