Coming of Age (Audio book) - Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Studs Terkel was an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a radio commentator, and a television emcee, and he is the author of Working and Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Klappentext We don t know anything about the past and we don t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it! make it meaningful! the real repositories of living information! are being lost. Studs Terkel For "Coming of Age!" the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host interviewed a diverse assortment of men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. This audio includes the stories of 14 people who lived through the defining moments of the 20th century. Together they represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout the century and the ways in which the times have changed. For "Coming of Age "is a compelling picture of what we have gained through progress and what we have lost.

Product details

• Authors: Studs Terkel, Studs/ Hamiliton Terkel
• Assisted by: Allen Hamilton (Reader / Narrator), Shirley Venard (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 14.01.2009
• EAN: 9781598878882
• ISBN: 978-1-59887-888-2
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 152 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous