Hard times; an oral history of the great depression / Studs Terkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Avon ; J109.

Avon ; J109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

United States.

Economic conditions.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

533 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Avon Books [a division of The Hearst Corporation], [1971]

Contents:

Book One. The march; The song; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Hard travelin'; The big money; Man and boy; God bless' the child; Bonnie Laboring Boy; Three Strikes

Book Two. Old families; Member of the chorus; High life; At the clinic; Sixteen ton; The farmer is the man; Editor and publisher

Book Three. Concerning the New Deal; An unreconstructed populist; Peroration; Scarlet banners and novenas; The doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith; The circuit rider; The gentleman from Kansas; A view of the woods; Campus life

Book Four. Merely passing through; Three o'clock in the morning; A cable

Book Five. The fine and lively arts; Public servant-the city; Evictions, arrests and other running sores; Honor and humiliation; Strive and succeed; Epilogue.

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Pantheon Books a division of Random House, Inc. ..."

"First Avon Printing, April, 1971. Seventh Printing, April,1973."

Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1974".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Potok Collection copy is "Seventh Printing, April 1973".

OCLC:

37857139