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At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. Here he offers a memoir which--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is youthful and vivacious. Terkel begins by

"Here is the raw material for one thousand novels .incomparable."Margaret AtwoodIn this unique look at one of our most pervasive national myths, Studs Terkel persuades an extraordinary range of Ameri

The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater collects the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian’s remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Originally publish

The Pulitzer Prize winner's "latest indispensable oral history" (New York Times) of the twentieth century's most celebrated musicians.Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel

A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian"I'm one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain

In a major new work including over forty never-before-published interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian talks to masters of stage and screen. Few of Studs Terkel's millions of readers a

A volume of previously unpublished or uncollected works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is comprised of many of his favorite broadcasts, interviews, and writings, in an anthology that includes

A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1995, Coming of Age presents an astonishing portrait of American life and the experience of aging in the twentieth century, drawn from the st

Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.... In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" (Chicago Daily News)--"a magnificent book . . .. A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking." (Boston Globe).

A writer, reporter, and above all, a good listener, Studs Turkel has spent a career posing provocative questions and actively listening to the answers. In "The Good War", Terkel talks to Americans, b