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(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781565843424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1997
Publisher: The New Press
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781565843196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1995
Publisher: The New Press
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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, the author captured their voices for posterity.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781565845459
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: The New Press
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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 to get out, the Boston Brahmin and KKK members.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595580726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: The New Press
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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 backgrounds in terms of class, race and personal history. It is an interesting survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century.


(Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595588104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: The New Press
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Studs Terkel's fascinating account of Race from many and varied points of view.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781862079366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of interviews by Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595581723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: The New Press
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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 into one astonishing tapestry. Superb oral history from the undisputed master of the genre.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781620979136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: The New Press
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(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595587039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: The New Press
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"This is an abridged edition of Hard Times. The original edition included an additional sixty interviews"--T.p. verso.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595584236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: The New Press
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Pulitzer-prize winning Terkel makes a selection of his favourite unpublished writings, broadcasts and interviews.


(Hardback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595587183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: The New Press
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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. A tribute to the 'Second City' that is part history, part memoir and 100% Studs Terkel, the book is infused with anecdotes, memories and reflections that celebrate the great city of Chicago.


(Hardback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781565845534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: The New Press
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Gives a firsthand look at the actors, directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who have created the dramatic arts of the half-century.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781595583598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: The New Press
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Richly entertaining and deeply personal conversations with the masters of stage and screen by the legendary Studs Terkel.


(Paperback)

By: Studs Terkel

ISBN: 9781620970119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: The New Press
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