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Informationen zum Autor Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession ; Division Street: America , Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century ; Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times ; "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II ; Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do ; The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century ; American Dreams: Lost and Found ; The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater ; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression ; Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith ; Giants of Jazz ; Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times ; And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey ; Touch and Go: A Memoir ; P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening ; and Studs Terkel's Chicago , all published by The New Press. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Klappentext 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").

Product details

• Authors: Studs Terkel, Terkel Studs
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1997
• EAN: 9781565843424
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-342-4
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 210 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, Labour / income economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrial arbitration & negotiation