Jean Thesman, Author, Studs Terkel, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-50934-0
More than just a compelling adventure, Rachel Chance provides a bittersweet glimpse of rural Washington state in the 1940s. Rachel Chance's illegitimate brother Rider is a beautiful child, and a lot of people in town think that he'd be better off...
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Studs Terkel, Author . New Press $25.95 (407p) ISBN 978-1-56584-692-0
In the past, Terkel (The Good War) has gotten people to talk about their concrete experiences, like family, war and the Depression, rather than an event that no one can talk about after having experienced it. Now Terkel, a gifted interviewer,...
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Studs Terkel, Author . New Press $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56584-837-5
Turning to a subject more elusive than those of his earlier oral histories (work, race, WWII, the American dream and so on), Terkel focuses here on hope as the universal detritus of experience. Terkel worries that Americans are losing hope and...
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Studs Terkel, Author . New Press $25.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-59558-003-0
In this enjoyable, informative collection of 40 interviews, Pulitzer-winning oral historian Terkel recalls his venerable radio program, The Wax Museum,
which premiered shortly after the end of WWII in 1945, profiling composers, entertainers and...
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Studs Terkel, Author New Press $16.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-59558-423-6
Cleaning out the office after years of disuse was worthwhile for beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Terkel (1912-2008), and even more so for the loyal readers who recently lost him. This collection of previously unpublished essays and...
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Studs Terkel, Author Pantheon Books $18.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-394-57053-2
In his latest oral history, an appraisal of how the last 10 years have changed us, Pulitzer Prize-winner Terkel ( Working , etc.) uses the phrase ``great divide'' to symbolize the breaches which he claims are widening between young and old, rich and
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Studs Terkel, Author New Press $24.95 (403p) ISBN 978-1-56584-000-3
The first title from Andre Schiffrin's publishing house is a major, timely book for an election year. In Terkel's ( Hard Times ) well-established manner--he is one of the great interviewers--he encourages a wide range of Americans, black and white,...
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Studs Terkel, Author New Press $25 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56584-365-3
It is 30 years ago that Terkel, then known as a radio interviewer, was persuaded by Andre Schiffrin of Pantheon to commit his remarkably plainspoken and telling interviews to print and weave them around a theme. The first theme was the life of...
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Studs Terkel, Author, Studs Terkel, Performed by HighBridge Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-287-2
Today, in the age of Charlie Rose and other TV interviewers, impromptu conversations with authors, actors and musicians are a common part of the cultural landscape. But back in the 1950s, when Chicago radio journalist Terkel was interviewing the...
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Studs Terkel, Author, Garry Wills, Foreword by New Press $26.95 (364p) ISBN 978-1-56584-553-4
A collection of interviews with screen and stage actors, directors, playwrights and critics, Terkel's latest richly entertaining oral history is a departure from his bestselling interview books on weightier themes (Working; Hard Times; Race). Here,...
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Studs Terkel, Author, Norman Dietz, Read by , read by Norman Dietz. Tantor Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0588-5
In a match made in heaven, one of the world's great raconteurs and journalists has written his second memoir (a loosely organized stream-of-consciousness remembrance) and turns to one of the most recognizable voices in audiobooks to read it....
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Studs Terkel, Author, Sydney Lewis, With . New Press $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-1-59558-043-6
After a lifetime of interviewing others, Terkel finally turns the tape recorder on himself. At least, that's what he would have us think. Terkel's memoir is more a medley of all the extraordinary characters he's encountered through...
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Studs Terkel, Author, Allen Hamilton, Read by, Shirley Venard, Read by , read by Allen Hamilton and Shirley Venard. HighBridge $18.95 (180p) ISBN 978-1-59887-888-2
Originally a bestseller, this classic by the late Studs Terkel addresses the challenges of aging and offers a variety of remarkable firsthand accounts by individuals at the end of their lives. Allen Hamilton and Shirley Venard share reading duties,...
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