My American century, Studs Terkel
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My American century, Studs Terkel
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
My American century
Nature of contents
bibliography
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20825336051350
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Studs Terkel
Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel's "greatest hits." Terkel's oral histories have been enjoyed by millions of Americans, and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize, induction into The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Humanities Medal, and The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other honors. My American Century collects the best of his interviews and the introductions from each of his eight classic books, along with a major new introduction to Terkel's work by Robert Coles. It is a both stellar collection of portraits and a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920s onward
Table Of Contents
American dreams, lost and found. Vine Deloria, Native American author and teacher ; Andy Johnson, hardscrabble Finnish immigrant ; Wallace Rasmussen, Horatio Alger Award winner ; Vernon Jarrett, African-American newspaperman ; C.P. Ellis, former Klansman ; Leonel I. Castillo, former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service -- Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression. Ed Paulsen, freight-train rider ; Arthur A. Robertson, mogul ; Clifford Burke, hustler ; Doc Graham, gangster ; Oscar Heline, farmer ; Jane Yoder, daughter of a WPA worker ; Jerome Zerbe, society's photographer ; Peggy Terry and her mother, Mary Owsley, mountain people ; We still see their faces : introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The grapes of wrath -- The good war : an oral history of World War II. Bob Rasmus, rifleman ; Peggy Terry, hillbilly ; E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, marine ; Peter Ota, nisei ; Betty Basye Hutchinson, nurse -- Division Street, America. Florence Scala, neighborhood crusader ; Dennis Hart, cabbie ; Lucy Jefferson, migrant from Mississippi ; Kid Pharaoh, con man ; Tom Kearney, cop ; Chester Kolar, next-door neighbor ; George Malley (a.k.a. Henry Lorenz), blue-collar worker ; Eva Barnes, landlady -- Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. Mike Lefevre, steelworker ; Dolores Dante, waitress ; Roberto Acuna, farm worker ; Eric Nesterenko, pro hockey player ; Phil Stallings, auto worker ; Tom Patrick, fireman -- The great divide : second thoughts on the American dream. Caroll Nearmyer, family farmer ; Rex Winship, trader ; Sam Talbert, teamster ; Larry Heinemann, Vietnam War veteran ; Jean Gump, suburban grandmother -- Race : how blacks and whites think and feel about the American obsession. Joseph Lattimore, African-American ; Diane Romano, white mother of six ; Lloyd King, mixed race -- Coming of age : the story of our century by those who have lived it. Bessie Doenges, writer ; Jack Culberg, CEO ; Genora Johnson Dollinger, remembering the 1937 sit-down strike ; Jacob Lawrence, artist ; David Brown, environmentalist
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