Studs Terkel

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North Carolina

Studs Terkel's Chicago

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Signed and inscribed as pictured. Unread, but colored slightly from age.

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Wisconsin

How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession

Race - SIGNED FIRST EDITION

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Shelf wear at several places of jacket. Price marker written on inner protective page. Pages in great shape. Crisp and clean. Durable. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

An Oral History of World War II

The Good War

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Alaska

In this book, Terkel dramatically yet intimately captures the responses to the war from seaplane pilots and Chicago street kids, journalists and architects, a mountain woman and some film makers.

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Minnesota

Race

Florida

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

Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

Working

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City on the Make

Chicago

Kansas

Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

Interviews with emergency room doctors, Hiroshima survivors, AIDS co-workers, and death-row parolees express the beliefs, hopes, fears, and expectations of people confronted with death and life's ultimate experience.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Delaware

Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

America's most inspirational voices, in their own words: "If you're looking for a reason to act and dream again, you'll find it in the pages of this book" (Chicago Tribune).
 
Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed journalist's most elusive subjects: Hope. Where does it come from? What are its essential qualities? How do we sustain it in the darkest of times? An alternative, more personal chronicle of the "American century," Hope Dies Last is a testament to the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.
 
A former death row inmate who served nearly twenty years for a crime he did not commit discusses his never-ending fight for justice. Tom Hayden, author of The Port Huron Statement, contemplates the legacy of 1960s student activism. Liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith reflects on the enduring problem of corporate malfeasance. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion to the retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who advocate for a better world. With grace and warmth, Terkel's subjects express their secret hopes and dreams. Taken together, this collection of interviews tells an inspiring story of optimism and persistence, told in voices that resonate with the eloquence of conviction.
 
"The value of Hope Dies Last lies not in what it teaches readers about its narrow subject, but in the fascinating stories it reveals, and the insight it allows into the vast range of human experience." --The A.V. Club
 
"Very Terkelesque--by now the man requires an adjective of his own." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Review of Books
 
"An American treasure." --Cornel West

Hope Dies Last

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Trade paperback size. Pages are clean and tight with no spine creasing 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An Oral History of the Great Depression in America

Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression.

Hard Times

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Smoke-free home. There are no writings, markings or highlights in the book. There is a gray mark on the outer edges of the pages. There is gray and brown smudging on the cover, spine back cover and around the outer edges of the pages. All pages intact and readable still in good condition. Paperback.

Massachusetts

Presents the feelings of nearly one hundred Americans on such issues as affirmative action, changing neighborhoods, and secret prejudices.

Michigan

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II" (The Boston Globe).
 
"The Good War" is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter's apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called "a splendid epic history" of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history.
 
"Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers." --The New York Times Book Review
 
"I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel's book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling." --Chicago Tribune
 
"A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing." --People

Illinois

Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times

Stud's look at the 1930s, 1960s, and the present; at times when ordinary people in America had great hopes for the future, and what became of those hopes.

Missouri

Louisiana

Hope Dies Last 5C

The very best interviews of the Pulitzer Prize winner's career

My American Century

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This is a 1st Edition from the Pulitzer Prize winning author. It portrays America and how has changed. Published in 1988.

Second Thoughts on the American Dream

A series of essays on the state of the United States at the end of the Reagan era.

The Great Divide 1st Edition

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Lost and Found

A cross-section of Americans--from an embittered Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Jesse Helms to a KKK member, from businessmen and Brahmins to activists and immigrants--speak of their hopes, expectations, and disappointments

American Dreams

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South Dakota

Includes dust jacket, which is intact but chipped. 

Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives....

A reissue of Terkel's classic work, with a new introduction by the author. "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.

An Oral History of the Great Depression

From the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and ?a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit? (Saturday Review).
 
In this ?invaluable record? of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times).
 
?Hard Times doesn?t ?render? the time of the depression?it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.? ?Arthur Miller
 
?Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.? ?Newsweek
 
?Open Studs Terkel?s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.? ?The National Observer

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