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Working
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A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
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At the age of 88, Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In his powerful new book, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, " a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the ...
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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Noted journalist and historian Studs Terkel interviewed hundreds of ordinary Americans about the Second World War for this book. People offer not only their memories of the war, but also their interpretations of what it meant at the time, and what it means decades later.
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Good War
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Noted journalist and historian Studs Terkel interviewed hundreds of ordinary Americans about the Second World War for this book. People offer not only their memories of the war, but also their interpretations of what it meant at the time, and what it means decades later.
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe").
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American Dreams: Lost & Found
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What is the American Dream? Ordinary Americans of every stripe discuss their dreams and hopes, and how those dreams and hopes have been fulfilled or dashed in the years since the Second World War.
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Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression
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Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression, now a New Press paperback. " Hard Times doesn't 'render' the time of the Depression or historicize about it--it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories. Anybody who wants to know where we were and how we got to where we are now has got to read this book." --Arthur ...
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Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
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David Nichols (Editor), Studs Terkel (Foreword by), Ernie Pyle
The first major collection of Ernie Pyle's wartime dispatches--a volume whichfinally reveals him to be without peer among writers about World War II.
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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
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The 20th century is recalled by older Americans. The lives of ordinary Americans changed radically during the "American Century," and the wide range of people interviewed in this book offer their memories and interpretations of those changes.
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Division street: America
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The book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as this country's foremost oral historian is a unique portrait of America at a time of change and hope.
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My American Century
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A collection of oral histories transcribed and edited by the American author and left-wing political activist. Terkel talks to veterans of the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, Prohibition bootleggers, and neighborhood advocates influenced by labor and civil rights organizer, Saul Alinsky.
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And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
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Ninety-three years old at this book's publication, Chicago writer and broadcaster Studs Terkel is perhaps the preeminent American compiler of oral histories of the 20th century. With his innately humane, gently probing curiosity, he has explored the hopes and dreams of working people, soldiers, and actors in books about working, race, the Second ...
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Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
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The noted oral historian recalls his eventful life and the many fascinating people he has interviewed.
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Hard Times
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"Hard Times doesn't render the time of the Depression or historicize about it--it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories".--Arthur Miller.
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One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
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Introduced by legendary journalist Studs Terkel, this collection of the columns of the equally legendary Chicago journalist Mike Royko includes the best of the writing he did daily for almost four decades as a columnist for the Chicago Daily-News, Sun-Times, and Tribune.
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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy
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Tom Frank (Editor), Dave Mulcahey (Editor), Studs Terkel (Preface by)
BOOB JUBILEE collects many of the most critical essays on culture and politics from the radical journal THE BAFFLER. Franks and Mulcahey include entries on a range of topics, from rethinking the American Midwest to a Fitzgerald-like critique of the Hamptons. Studs Terkel pens the introduction.
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Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession
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In recent years, race has reemerged as the leading issue in American politics. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and once again hostility, resentment, and racial conflict threaten to divide the nation. Now the author of Working and Hard Times divulges what preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen ...
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Touch and Go: A Memoir
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At 95 years of age, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Terkel offers his long-awaited memoir that embodies the spirit of the man himself--youthful, vivacious, and enormously fun.
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A Whole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution
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Marvin Miller, Bill James (Introduction by), Studs Terkel (Preface by)
Marvin Miller, the first executive director to the Major League Baseball Players Association, recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever, and thereby raised salaries enormously.
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The Grapes of Wrath: 250th Anniversary Edition
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John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ...
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Giants of Jazz
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Bestselling author and master storyteller Terkel sketches the lives of 13 giants who have made American jazz what it is today. Terkel uses firsthand interviews with the artists to bring to life the human stories behind the music. First published in 1957 and now reissued in a handsome, illustrated gift edition.
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Steve Goodman: Facing the Music
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Clay Eals, Arlo Guthrie (Foreword by), Studs Terkel (Selected by)
Intimate and touching, this biography captures the warmth and wit of Steve Goodman, one of the most respected songwriters of the 1970s and early 1980s. Diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 20, this portrait tells how Goodman strove to be a model husband and father while juggling experimental medical treatments with a career he found irresistible. ...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
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Through interviews with the famous and the not-so-famous--John Kenneth Galbraith, the pilot of the Enola Gay, Tom Hayden--oral historian Studs Terkel inquires into the status of hope, and its role in motivating people to act for social change. He records cases of the loss of hope, and expresses concern for the common weal.
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The Spectator: Talk about Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them
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One of America's most famous talkers, Terkel here collects a career's worth of conversations with actors, playwrights, and directors, including Lillian Hellmann, Federico Fellini, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee.
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Hard times: an oral history of the Great Depression
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