This series of Dorothea's photographs of the American people were taken in the 1930s at the time of the Great Depression. Those who can look at such pictures and be untouched by the tragedy are not really human but are zombies walking among us for they have no heart and what souls they might have are hard and turgid. Springsteen's song "We Take Care of Our Own” provides an ironic twist. God bless Franklin Roosevelt, God bless Social Security, God bless Lyndon Johnson, God Bless Medicare and Medicaid.
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