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Hard times : an oral history of the great depression / Studs Terkel.
LIBRA - Special E806 .T45 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives.
- Depressions.
- Oral history.
- History.
- United States--History--1933-1945--Sources.
- United States.
- United States--History--1919-1933--Sources.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Sources.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 462 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2000.
- Summary:
- Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.
- Contents:
- March
- Song
- Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
- Hard travelin'
- Big money
- Man and boy
- God bless' the child
- Bonnie laboring boy
- Three strikes
- Old families
- Member of the chorus
- High life
- At the clinic
- Sixteen ton
- Farmer is the man
- Editor and publisher
- Concerning the new deal
- Unreconstructed populist
- Scarlet banners and novenas
- Doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith
- Circuit rider
- Gentleman from Kansas
- View of the woods
- Campus life
- Merely passing through
- Three o'clock in the morning
- Fine and lively arts
- Public servant-the city
- Evictions, arrests and other running sores
- Honor and humiliation
- Strive and succeed
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1970.
- ISBN:
- 1565846567
- 9781565846562
- OCLC:
- 45447647
- Online:
- Publisher description
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