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The Studs Terkel Reader : My American Century
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terkel, Studs.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interviews--United States.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States.
- United States--Biography.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Local Subjects:
- Interviews--United States.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States.
- United States--Biography.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (594 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Studs Terkel Reader
- The Studs Terkel Reader
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, The, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With a foreword by Robert Coles and a preface by Calvin Trillin.The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his wonderful original introductions to each book. Featuring selections from American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, ""The Good War, The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, and Working, this ""greatest hits"" volume is a treasury of Terkel's most memorable subjects that will delight his many lifelong fans and p
- Contents:
- Title Page; OTHER BOOKS BY STUDS TERKEL; Dedication; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; NOTE; Part I - The Dream; American Dreams : - Lost and Found (1980); INTRODUCTION; VINE DELORIA; ANDY JOHNSON; WALLACE RASMUSSEN; VERNON JARRETT; C. P. ELLIS; LEONEL I. CASTILLO; Hard Times: - An Oral History of the great Depression (1970); INTRODUCTION: A PERSONAL MEMOIR; ED PAULSEN; ARTHUR A. ROBERTSON; CLIFFORD BURKE; DOC GRAHAM; OSCAR HELINE; JANE YODER; TOM YODER, JANE'S SON; JEROME ZERBE; PEGGY TERRY AND HER MOTHER, MARY OWSLEY; We Still See Their Faces
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH"The Good War": - An Oral History of World War Two (1984); INTRODUCTION; ROBERT RASMUS; PEGGY TERRY; E. B. (SLEDGEHAMMER) SLEDGE; PETER OTA; BETTY BASYE HUTCHINSON; Part II - The City; Division Street: (1967); INTRODUCTION; FLORENCE SCALA; DENNIS HART; LUCY JEFFERSON; KID PHARAOH; TOM KEARNEY; CHESTER KOLAR; GEORGE MALLEY (A.K.A. HENRY LORENZ); EVA BARNES; Working: - People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What ...; INTRODUCTION; MIKE LEFEVRE; DOLORES DANTE; ROBERTO ACUNA; ERIC NESTERENKO
- PHIL STALLINGSTOM PATRICK; Part III - The Divide; The Great Divide - (1988); INTRODUCTION; CARROLL NEARMYER; REX WINSHIP; SAM TALBERT; LARRY HEINEMANN; JEAN GUMP; Race: - How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992); INTRODUCTION; JOSEPH LATTIMORE; DIANE ROMANO; LLOYD KING; Coming of Age: - The Story of Our Century By Those Who Have Lived It (1995); INTRODUCTION; BESSIE DOENGES, 93; JACK CULBERG, 79; GENORA JOHNSON DOLLINGER, 80; JACOB LAWRENCE, 76; DAVID BROWER, 79; Also by Studs Terkel; Copyright Page
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781595587640
- 1595587640
- OCLC:
- 759807348
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