What led harburg to write the song, "brother, can you spare a dime? " the biggest bread line in new york city, which was owned and operated by william randolph hearst the realization that the prosperity of the past was completely gone and very unlikely to return the able-bodied men he saw begging for money and standing in bread lines in the streets of new york the request president roosevelt made to harburg for a catchy and poignant campaign song?

The correct answer is C.

The reason for writing the song "brother, can you spear a dime?" was the terrible amount of able bodied men, men who built the nation and fought the war, that were now begging for food and standing in bread lines.

The idea was not to express the biterness of men for starving and being poor, but to cause reflexion on why this men who were crucial for their nation are now being forgotten and abandoned.

would not cooperate with each other voluntarily.