Terkel, Studs
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1993
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Summary: An account of the lives of ordinary Americans, at home and abroad, during World War Two.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1984
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Summary: In the latest of Terkel's fine oral histories, ordinary people reflect on the issues of the 1980sReaganism, greed, farming, race relations, education, and religion. The law-and-order fundamentalist who participated in the sanctuary movement and the police chief's wife who was arrested during an anti-war demonstration help form this collage. The "divide" exists when inner beliefs conflict with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1992
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Summary: These interviews--with congressmen and cooks, union organizers and CEOs, students, immigrants, activists, veterans, priests and lawyers--constitute an alternative history of the American century. They form a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1997
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Summary: From interviews with a Hiroshima survivor, AIDS caseworker, death-row parolee, police, firefighters, emergency health workers, doctors, nurses, writers, undertakers, clergy, etc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.23 TERSteinbeck, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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Summary: This highly original and universal portrait of the American workday is told from the perspective of those that the world so often overlooks - the schoolteacher, the housewife, the fireman and the waitress amongst many - whose daily grind and aspirations reflect the truths of the people that make up a nation. The musical is based on the Studs Terkel book Working: People Talk About What They Do...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghostlight Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WORSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018