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    Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

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    This text takes a look at work in the 20th century, with accounts from a variety of people about their jobs.

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    Studs Terkel’s Chicago

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    Chicago was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning Studs Terkel, who moved there in 1922 and made it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of 96…

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    The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

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    This work documents the American experience of World War II. It offers an insight into what people were feeling at the time, including an account by Hawaiian, John Garcia, of…

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    Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

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    Studs Terkel’s fascinating account of Race from many and varied points of view.

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    Touch And Go: A Memoir

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    The Pulitzer Prize-winning Studs Terkel’s eclectic life finally comes alive in these extraordinary memoirs.

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    The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

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    A beautiful paperback edition of Terkel’s greatest hits, featuring a selection, made by Studs himself, of the best essays from eight of his classic books.

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    Coming Of Age: Growing Up in the 20th Century

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    Bestselling oral history of what it was like to age in the 20th century - told by 74 disparate voices, all of whom lived through practically all of it, woven…

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    And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

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    Talks about music.

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    Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

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    The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism…

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    P.s.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

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    Pulitzer-prize winning Terkel makes a selection of his favourite unpublished writings, broadcasts and interviews.

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    Will The Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

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    In Terkel’s powerful new book a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which they live. In talking about the ultimate and…

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    The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

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    Richly entertaining and deeply personal conversations with the masters of stage and screen by the legendary Studs Terkel.

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    Talking To Myself: A Memoir of my Times

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    An autobiography of Studs Terkel, an American oral historian, which mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr to Federico Fellini…

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    American Dreams: Lost and Found

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    Concerned with the American Dream , the author of the text discusses the ideals and aspirations with businessmen enamoured of success, farm kids dreaming of the city, city boys determined…

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    Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

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    Capturing the Depression in all its complexity, this work assembles a mosaic of memories as told by those who faced destitution, as well as those who stayed rich.

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    Giants Of Jazz

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    Talks about music/Jazz.

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    Division Street America

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    Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, this book chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying…

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    Hard Times: An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

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    This is an abridged edition of Hard Times. The original edition included an additional sixty interviews –T.p. verso.

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    James T. Baker

    Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

    Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…

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    Giants Of Jazz

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    Sketching the lives of the giants of jazz, Studs Terkel uses firsthand interviews to bring to life the human stories behind the music. This evocation of the mythic heroes of…

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    The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Made Them

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    Studs Terkel has interviewed some of the greatest luminaries of film and theatre on his nationally syndicated US radio show. This book brings the cream of those interviews together in…

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    Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation

    Paul Buhle

    Comics impresario Harvey Peckar brings Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece to life in a collection of vibrant, visual comic art that will delight Terkel fans and introduce his work to a whole…

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    Working in America: The Best of Studs Terkel’s Working Tapes

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    From the archives of legendary storyteller and bestselling author Studs Terkel comes a stunning audio documentary series that captures the voices of Americans from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting on…

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    Working in America: The Best of Studs Terkel’s Working Tapes

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    From the archives of legendary storyteller and bestselling author Studs Terkel comes a stunning audio documentary series that captures the voices of Americans from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting on…

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    Working in America: The Best of Studs Terkel’s Working Tapes

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    From the archives of legendary storyteller and bestselling author Studs Terkel comes a stunning audio documentary series that captures the voices of Americans from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting on…

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    Rogues, Rebels, And Rubber Stamps: The Politics Of The Chicago City Council, 1863 To The Present

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    Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war.

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    Rogues, Rebels, And Rubber Stamps: The Politics Of The Chicago City Council, 1863 To The Present

    Dick Simpson,Studs Terkel

    The story of the Chicago City Council serves as a microcosm af the struggle for democracy and justice in the U.S. over the last century and a half, and it…

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    One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

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    Culled from 7500 columns and spanning four decades, from Mike Rokyo’s early days to his last dispatch, the writings in this collection reflect a radically changing America as seen by…

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    One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

    Mike Royko

    Spanning four decades, from his early days to his last despatch , the writings in this collection reflect a radically changing America as seen by a man whose keen sense…

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    Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

    Ed Cray

    A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody…

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    Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation

    Alan Wieder

    Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books…

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    Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation

    Alan Wieder

    Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books…

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    Last Words of the Executed

    Robert K. Elder,Studs Terkel

    Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. This book presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the…

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    Christ in Concrete

    Pietro di Donato

    A powerful epic of Italian American life and a classic in the literature of immigration, Christ in Concrete focuses on a family struggling against prejudice and the harsh realities of…

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    The Man With the Golden Arm

    Nelson Algren

    The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den.

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    Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

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    We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it…

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    Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

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    We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it…

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    Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

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    We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it…

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    Storytellin’ Muni Drivers, Vol. 1-6

    Alan Allen

    (2007) Storytellin’ Muni Drivers, vol 1-6: 20th Anniversary Edition Edited by Alan Allen, Foreword by Studs Terkel. 154 pgs, 82 photos by Richard Panse. Reviews of volume 1: Urban oral…

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    Touch and Go

    Sydney Lewis, Studs Terkel

    At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is…

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    Touch and Go

    Sydney Lewis, Studs Terkel

    At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is…

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    Touch and Go

    Sydney Lewis, Studs Terkel

    At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is…

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    One More River to Cross: The Selected Poetry of John Beecher

    John Beecher,Studs Terkel

    The late Beecher, though descended from the abolitionist Beechers, was a Birmingham, Alabama, native due to his father’s role as a steel executive. Rebelling against this, he wrote powerful, radical…

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    Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition

    John Howard Griffin

    On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own–he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey…

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    Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition

    Nelson Algren

    Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a…

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    Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists

    The secret history of Chicago. From the South Sideas Hyde Park, to the North Beach of Rogers Park, with sidelights in the suburbs and notable stop-overs at Bughouse Square, this…

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