About this title: Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, this tapestry presents the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781594201400ISBN:1594201404
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Two
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780143114345ISBN:0143114344
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"This is an amazing book. I've heard segments from the StoryCorps Project on NPR, but I wasn't really aware that there was a book that gathered some of the more memorable interviews together. Thanks, Maggie, for recommending this book so highly. You were totally right. There is something lost, I think, in reading these interviews rather than listening to them (I admit that I went to the website and listened to a couple of them), but even in print the emotional impact hit me with a wallop. Too often we think of historical events on a grand scale, and even though I teach history and political science on the college level, I am as guilty of this as anyone else. However, the StoryCorps Project is a reminder that it is the lives of each individual, taken together as a totality, that really makes up the story of America. Some of these stories made me laugh, some made me remember events in my own life, and some of them made me cry. This book reinforced for me the absolute necessity of getting the stories from those around us because everyone has something to teach. Luckily, years ago, I gave my 90 year old grandmother a list of questions and a journal and asked her to write a letter to me. The entire family was absolutely amazed by what she wrote. And when she died 7 years later, she left behind some precious memories that would have been lost to our family forever (who knew that our grandmother was such a little scamp?). I've already given this book as a gift to several people and have recommended it to many others."
"To understand this book, you first have to understand StoryCorps, an oral history project, which has been going on across America since 2003. It was modeled after a similar project done by the WPA in the Great Depression, in which out of work historians and writers interviewed ordinary Americans about their lives. The purpose of that project was to create a record for posterity so that we could understand life during the Depression. But the current StoryCorps is slightly different. The interviewers are not professionals; usually a friend or relative brings another to the StoryCorps booth for the interview. And while part of the goal is to create a record for history - every recording is stored in the Library of Congress - the main goal is determined by the interviewer and interviewee. Some may want to explain their lives, some want to remember a loved one, and some just think it's fun.
This book is a collection of what StoryCorps' founder considered the best interviews. I'd heard some of them before because the best of the week is aired on Fridays on NPR's "Morning Edition." But most were completely new to me, and they really captured the broad spectrum of America: farm life during the Depression, a black woman and the struggle to vote, a Holocaust survivor and his daughter, a nurse whose brother died of AIDS, two men in jail, a 9/11 survivor, and Katrina survivors. Of all the stories, I was most moved by the Katrina survivors. The one that made me laugh the most was Dr. Richard Collins, the second interview in the book. He's a senior citizen, as are many of the interviewees. But all the stories were wonderful, and I'm hoping they'll come out with a sequel.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that my sister was employed by StoryCorps for a while. In fact, her name appears amongst the acknowledgments at the end of the book. While she worked there, she was always urging me to do an interview with her, but it was never convenient. Now that I've read the book, I'm more gung-ho than ever. Who knows? Maybe the world at large needs to know more about the teshuva movement."
"Something tells me that, in a couple of hundred years, when historians from the 23rd century do their research on the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book will be essential reading. It is history, viewed from the bottom up.
This is a book of stories, edited by Dave Isay, the founder of the StoryCorps project. The goal is to collect and archive the stories of everyday people. The StoryCorps methodology is simple: go around the country with a bunch of mobile recording studios, accompanied by a few facilitators, find people who have stories to tell and a son / daughter / niece / nephew / grandchild / friend / neighbor to interview them, fire up the microphones, and let them talk. The results are quite extraordinary.
Some of the stories that particularly stick in my mind are: * The WWII army veteran who still can't forget the face of the 14-year-old Hitler Youth soldier who wouldn't surrender and that he had to shoot. * The former alcoholic homeless man being interviewed by the man who brought him home for New Year's Eve dinner one night. * The child of the Depression, talking to her granddaughter about what it was like during a North Dakota winter when there weren't enough overshoes in every family to go around, so the kids would trade off in attending school on alternate days and collect the homework assignment for their siblings. * The sister who took care of her brother dying of AIDS. * The two convicts in the Oregon State Penitentiary interviewing each other about their childhood and family history and the bad choices that landed them there. * The birth mother being interviewed by her son, 28 years later, about why she gave him up for adoption.
Not every one of these stories will grab you, but enough of them will that I don't think you'll soon forget this book. It might even inspire you to grab your mother or your brother and drag them down to a StoryCorps studio. Or just put a video camera on a tripod in your living room and go that route. I'm very grateful I did that with my own grandmother and mother-in-law."
"This was a gift for someone who has little time to read. She was able to read each little segment in a few minutes. I've heard lots of them on Public Radio and so I knew this this book make a perfect gift for my daughter-in-law and I plan to buy it for myself."
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