The Studs Terkel Interviews

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587667
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Working written by Studs Terkel and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595583598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Studs Terkel Interviews written by Studs Terkel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the Pulitzer-Prize winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of theatre and film. Among the many highlights are Buster Keaton explaining the wonder of unscripted silent comedy and interviews with Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Tennessee Williams. Because Studs knows his subjects' work intimately, he asks precisely the right questions to elicit the most revealing responses.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1595587608
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hard Times written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review). In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression—it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.” —Arthur Miller “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.” —Newsweek “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.” —The National Observer

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788190889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Coming of Age written by Studs Terkel and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel presents an extraordinary documentary of the 20th century, captured with a haunting voice and cadence that only he could achieve. Wise, contemplative, and wondrous, Coming of Age is Terkel in high form--compassionate, generous, always insightful--"(a) kind of national prose poem, a chorus of cacophonous voices offering a jagged, emotionally charged portrait of our times" (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review).

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595587187
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Studs Terkel's Chicago written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares his memories of growing up in Chicago and anecdotes about the city and its inhabitants.

Author : Alan Wieder
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583675930
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Studs Terkel written by Alan Wieder and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wieder draws from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs to create a multidimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and storyteller, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. --From publisher description.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595580726
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Division Street written by Studs Terkel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race and personal history all inhabitants of a single city in Chicago as a microcosm of the nation at large.

Author : Krista Tippett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143113188
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Speaking of Faith written by Krista Tippett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book, she draws on her own life story and her intimate conversations with both ordinary and famous figures, including Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, and Thich Nhat Hanh, to explore complex subjects like science, love, virtue, and violence within the context of spirituality and everyday life. Her way of speaking about the mysteries of life-and of listening with care to those who endeavor to understand those mysteries--is nothing short of revolutionary.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1595586555
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book And They All Sang written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian talks with some of twentieth century’s most iconic musicians—“Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation” (San Francisco Chronicle). Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show “The Wax Museum,” presenting Chicago’s music fans with his inimitable take on music of all kinds, from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk, and rock. Featuring more than forty of Terkel’s conversations with some of the greatest musicians of the past century, And They All Sang is “a tribute to music’s universality and power” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Included here are fascinating conversations with Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Rosa Raisa, Pete Seeger, and many others. As the esteemed music critic Anthony DeCurtis wrote in the Chicago Tribune, “the terms ‘interview’ or ‘oral history’ don’t begin to do justice to what Terkel achieves in these conversations, which are at once wildly ambitious and as casual as can be.” Whether discussing Enrico Caruso’s nervousness on stage with opera diva Edith Mason or the Beatles’ 1966 encounter in London with revered Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, “Terkel’s singular gift for bringing his subjects to life in their own words should strike a chord with any music fan old enough to have replaced a worn-out record needle” (The New York Times). “Whether diva or dustbowl balladeer, Studs treats them all alike, with deep knowledge and an intimate, conversational approach . . . as this often remarkable book shows, Studs Terkel has remained mesmerized by great music throughout his life.” —The Guardian “[Terkel’s] expertise is evident on every page, whether debating the harmonic structure of the spirituals or discerning the subtleties of Keith Jarrett’s piano technique . . . As ever, he is the most skillful of interviewers.” —The Independent “What makes And They All Sang a rousing success isn’t just Terkel’s phenomenal range and broad knowledge, it’s his passionate love of the music and his deep humanity.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595583211
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Studs Terkel's Working written by Harvey Pekar and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in "Working" into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.