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Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780394427744 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1970, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The character and atmosphere of this dramatic era are recreated in this collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans

Paperback:

9781565846562, titled "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" | New Pr, November 30, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.
9780394746913, titled "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The character and atmosphere of this dramatic era are recreated in this collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans

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Created as a forum for Americans to talk about what it's like to earn a living in the workaday world, this musical was based on Studs Terkel's bestselling book. Performed by Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, et al.

Hardcover:

9780394478845 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1974, cover price $21.95 | also contains Sloths | About this edition: Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

CD/Spoken Word:

9781580811316 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, June 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Created as a forum for Americans to talk about what it's like to earn a living in the workaday world, this musical was based on Studs Terkel's bestselling book.

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A cross-section of Americans--from an embittered Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Jesse Helms to a KKK member, from businessmen and Brahmins to activists and immigrants--speak of their hopes, expectations, and disappointments (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780394507934 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A cross-section of Americans--from an embittered Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Jesse Helms to a KKK member, from businessmen and Brahmins to activists and immigrants--speak of their hopes, expectations, and disappointments

Paperback:

9781565845459, titled "American Dreams: Lost and Found" | New Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A cross-section of Americans--from an embittered Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Jesse Helms to a KKK member, from businessmen and Brahmins to activists and immigrants--speak of their hopes, expectations, and disappointments
9780345329936, titled "American Dreams: Lost and Found" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1985), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A cross-section of Americans--from an embittered Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Jesse Helms to a KKK member, from businessmen and Brahmins to activists and immigrants--speak of their hopes, expectations, and disappointments

Product Description: The book collects essays from Ronald Grele and other leading oral historians about the concept, issues, and techniques of oral history.

Hardcover:

9780913750230 | 2 sub edition (Precedent Pub, March 1, 1984), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: The book collects essays from Ronald Grele and other leading oral historians about the concept, issues, and techniques of oral history.

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Oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II

Hardcover:

9780394531038 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II
9780517629826 | Outlet, September 1, 1984, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II

Paperback:

9780345325686 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II

By Harry Bouras (editor) and Studs Terkel (contributor)

Paperback:

9780932026149 | Columbia College, December 1, 1984, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: With an unequalled ear for the voices of ordinary Americans, Terkel dramatically yet intimately captures the responses to the war from sea-plane pilots and Chicago street kids to journalists, architects, a mountain woman, policemen, film makers, a paper-mill worker, cabdrivers and a host of others...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394550442 | Random House, October 1, 1985, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With an unequalled ear for the voices of ordinary Americans, Terkel dramatically yet intimately captures the responses to the war from sea-plane pilots and Chicago street kids to journalists, architects, a mountain woman, policemen, film makers, a paper-mill worker, cabdrivers and a host of others.

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Product Description: Book by Studs Terkel, adapted for the stage by Peter Frisch, Terkel, Studs, Frisch, Peter

Paperback:

9780822200291 | Dramatist''s Play Service, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Book by Studs Terkel, adapted for the stage by Peter Frisch, Terkel, Studs, Frisch, Peter

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Through anecdote and observation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Good War' portrays life in 1980s America, discusses how it has changed in recent years, and indicates how such changes have affected the values of America's youth

Hardcover:

9780394570532, titled "The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream" | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Through anecdote and observation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Good War' portrays life in 1980s America, discusses how it has changed in recent years, and indicates how such changes have affected the values of America's youth

Paperback:

9780517050811 | Outlet, December 1, 1991, cover price $3.99

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Through anecdote and observation, the author portrays life in 1980s America, discusses how it has changed in recent years, and indicates how such changes have affected the values of America's youth

Paperback:

9780380708543, titled "The Great Divide" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Through anecdote and observation, the author portrays life in 1980s America, discusses how it has changed in recent years, and indicates how such changes have affected the values of America's youth

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394573854 | Random House, September 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

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Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

Paperback:

9780345325693 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1990), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

By Hollinger F. Barnard (editor) and Studs Terkel (contributor)

Paperback:

9780817305178 | Reprint edition (Fire Ant Books, November 1, 1990), cover price $34.95

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Through firsthand interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War recounts the lives of thirteen great jazz musicians and vocalists, including Joe Oliver, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Charlie Parker, in a new edition of the 1957 classic. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781565847699 | Rev upd edition (New Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Recounts the professional lives of thirteen great jazz musicians and vocalists, including King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker.

Paperback:

9781565849990 | Rev upd edition (New Pr, September 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians who have made major contributions to the development of this form of music.

Library:

9780690049176 | Rev upd su edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1992), cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians who have made major contributions to the development of this form of music.

Product Description: In this timely and significant Bookcassette, Studs Terkel interweaves the experiences and opinions of a variety of people - blacks and whites, men and women - from all walks of life. As one of our greatest interviewers, he encourages people to speak their minds with great frankness about the subject of race and about their perceptions of the leadership in Washington...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781561004768 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 1, 1992), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In this timely and significant Bookcassette, Studs Terkel interweaves the experiences and opinions of a variety of people - blacks and whites, men and women - from all walks of life.
9781561001101 | Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 1, 1992, cover price $105.25 | About this edition: In this timely and significant Bookcassette, Studs Terkel interweaves the experiences and opinions of a variety of people - blacks and whites, men and women - from all walks of life.

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"Division Street: America" is the book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as the country's foremost oral historian, as "more than a writer. . . a national resource," in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith. Indeed, the people in Division Street were so compelling that Terkel revisited many of them for his recent bestseller, Race, showing how their opinions had changed and their prejudices had grown in the intervening decades.

Hardcover:

9780844667416 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $26.50

Paperback:

9781595580726 | New Pr, April 17, 2006, cover price $17.95
9781565840751 | Reissue edition (New Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: "Division Street: America" is the book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as the country's foremost oral historian, as "more than a writer.

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Presents a collection of some of Terkel's most important radio interviews from the 1950s through the 1980s, with such distinguished guests as Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Margot Fonteyn, James Baldwin, and Bob Woodward.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565110038 | Highbridge Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of some of Terkel's most important radio interviews from the 1950s through the 1980s, with such distinguished guests as Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Margot Fonteyn, James Baldwin, and Bob Woodward.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author pens a far-reaching panorama that encompasses the lives of seventy aging individuals with wide ranging personal experiences that clearly show how American working lives have drastically changed over the course of the twentieth century. Reprint. Tour. NYT.

Hardcover:

9781565842847, titled "Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who'Ve Lived It" | New Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the transformations in vocation and lifestyle in America during the twentieth century through the experiences of a very diverse group of elderly men and women
9780788190889, titled "Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It" | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author pens a far-reaching panorama that encompasses the lives of seventy aging individuals with wide ranging personal experiences that clearly show how American working lives have drastically changed over the course of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780312145736, titled "Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who'Ve Lived It" | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the transformation in vocation and lifestyle in America during the twentieth century throught the experiences of a very diverse group of elderly men and women

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565111325, titled "Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who'Ve Lived It" | Highbridge Co, August 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it.

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The veteran journalist-interviewer records memorable incidents, meetings, and endeavors of his life, providing anecdotes involving his own experiences and observations, and those of people famous and unknown (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780030185984, titled "Auditing: Concepts for a Changing Environment" | Dryden Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $99.00 | also contains Auditing: Concepts for a Changing Environment
9780394411026 | Galahad Books, March 1, 1979, cover price $1.49

Paperback:

9781565843196 | Reissue edition (New Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The veteran journalist-interviewer records memorable incidents, meetings, and endeavors of his life, providing anecdotes involving his own experiences and observations, and those of people famous and unknown

Oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II

Hardcover:

9780030349218, titled "Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences" | Harcourt School, April 1, 1979, cover price $21.95 | also contains Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences

Paperback:

9781565843431 | Reprint edition (New Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II
9789990045963 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $0.02

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Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

Hardcover:

9780030350351, titled "Hello, the Boat!" | Harcourt School, June 1, 1938, cover price $3.27 | also contains Hello, the Boat!

Paperback:

9781565843424 | New Pr, February 28, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams
9789990092943 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 28, 1997, cover price $0.02
9780394729534 | Reissue edition (Random House Inc, October 1, 1984), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams

Prebinding:

9781439507018 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $25.95
9780808596172 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.60

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Terkel has selected the most memorable interviews from his eight previous books, including Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street; Tom Patrick, a fireman; and C. P. Ellin, the former Ku Klux Klansman

Hardcover:

9781565843653 | New Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Terkel has selected the most memorable interviews from his eight previous books, including Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street; Tom Patrick, a fireman; and C.

Paperback:

9781565844698 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Terkel has selected the most memorable interviews from his eight previous books, including Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street; Tom Patrick, a fireman; and C.

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Presents a collection of some of Terkel's most important radio interviews from the 1950s through the 1990s, with such guests as Eudora Welty, Margot Fonteyn, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Margaret Mead, Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillin, and Bill Moyers.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565112872 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, April 1, 1999), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of some of Terkel's most important radio interviews from the 1950s through the 1990s, with such guests as Eudora Welty, Margot Fonteyn, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Margaret Mead, Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillin, and Bill Moyers.

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Gathers interviews with Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing, Arthur Miller, James Cagney, Pauline Kael, Federico Fellini, Sybil Thorndike, James Baldwin, William Saroyan, Edward Albee, and Zero Mostel (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781565845534 | New Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Gathers interviews with Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing, Arthur Miller, James Cagney, Pauline Kael, Federico Fellini, Sybil Thorndike, James Baldwin, William Saroyan, Edward Albee, and Zero Mostel

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A collection of the best of Mike Royko's columns spanning four decades of his celebrated career (view table of contents)
By Mike Royko, Studs Terkel (foreword by) and Lois Wille

Hardcover:

9780226730714 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 29, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of the best of Mike Royko's columns spanning four decades of his celebrated career
9780062715821, titled "Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$: 1995" | Perennial, January 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | also contains Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$: 1995 | About this edition: A comprehensive guide to investments features definitions of economic and financial terms

Paperback:

9780226730721 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.00

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Gathers interviews with Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing, Arthur Miller, James Cagney, Pauline Kael, Federico Fellini, Sybil Thorndike, James Baldwin, William Saroyan, Edward Albee, and Zero Mostel

Paperback:

9781565846333 | New Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Gathers interviews with Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Carol Channing, Arthur Miller, James Cagney, Pauline Kael, Federico Fellini, Sybil Thorndike, James Baldwin, William Saroyan, Edward Albee, and Zero Mostel

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