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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do more books like this

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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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Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression

Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression more books like this

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Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression.

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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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The first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book with a new Preface by the author. "As in "Hard Times" and "Working", this master interviewer again creates a turbulent epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived it. . . . A vivid resurrection of a lost time".--"Newsday".

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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In Terkel's powerful new book a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which they live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of life, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them.

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Working

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by Studs Terkel

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Good War

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by Studs Terkel

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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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Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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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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One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko more books like this

by Mike Royko, Lois Wille (Commentaries by), Studs Terkel (Foreword by)

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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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Division street: America

Division street: America more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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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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Will the Circle Be Unbroken

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Studs Terkel explores the questions surrounding death, mortality, and the meaning of life in this collection of 60 interviews.

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American Dreams: Lost & Found more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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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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Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches more books like this

by David Nichols (Editor), Studs Terkel (Foreword by), Ernie Pyle

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For all readers, especially those whose only of World War II may be from textbooks or films, Ernie's War offers a revealing, poignant look at the actual experiences of the average foot soldier swept into the tumult of battle. 9 black-and-white photographs.

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Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice more books like this

by Edward T Chambers, Studs Terkel (Foreword by)

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Presents a summary of the philosophy of the Industrial Arts Foundation by its current leader and an account of its extraordinary founder, Saul Alinsky.

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Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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The noted oral historian recalls his eventful life and the many fascinating people he has interviewed.

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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times more books like this

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Now in paperback--"Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times" is the tenth oral history by the Pulitzer Prize winner and his account of an "American century" of hope, activism, and determination.

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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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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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The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century more books like this

by Studs Terkel

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Originally published under the title "My American Century," this anthology collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work.

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Hard times: an oral history of the Great Depression more books like this

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Hard Times more books like this

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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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Hope Dies Last more books like this

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"Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times" is the tenth oral history by the Pulitzer Prize winner and his account of an "American century" of hope, activism, and determination.

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Touch and Go: A Memoir more books like this

by Studs Lewis Terkel, Norman Dietz (Read by)

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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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Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr more books like this

by Virginia Foster Durr, Hollinger F Barnard (Editor), Studs Terkel (Foreword by)

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This is the oral autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr, a fiery, wisecracking Southern heroine whose metamorphosis from Southern belle who refused to eat with blacks to a leader of the Civil Rights movement helped to change the face of the South. 21 photographs.

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My American Century more books like this

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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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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated more books like this

by Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel (Introduction by), David Schmittgens (Text by)

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Newly annotated with everything from slang to Chicagoans--famous and obscure--this book is, as Studs Terkel says, "the best book about Chicago".

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Great Divide more books like this

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The author reads from his book that captures the men, women, and children of the 1980s: the upwardly mobile who measure their lives in dollars; the disenchanted who seek a different meaning in the American dream; and the rest.

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