Bøger af Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel's fascinating account of Race from many and varied points of view.

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 Workingis 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 inWorkingis good talkearthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.' The Washington Post

A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."--The New York Times When Division Street, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, was published in 1967 (it was commissioned by New Press founding director André Schiffrin), Terkel's reputation as America's foremost oral historian was established overnight. Approaching Chicagoans as emblematic of the nation at large, Terkel set out with his tape recorder and spent a year talking to people about the place and time they lived in. The freewheeling conversations touched on race, family, education, work, prospects for the future--all topics that remain deeply contentious today. The more than seventy subjects included a Black woman who attended the 1963 March on Washington, a tool-and-die maker, a baker from Budapest, a closeted gay actor, and a successful but cynical ad man. As Tom Wolfe wrote, Studs was "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country." Although the interviewees were very different, most shared the hope for a good life for their children and the wish for a less divided and more just America, an America that would fulfill its promises. The real Chicago street referenced in the title takes on a metaphorical meaning as a symbol of the acute social divides of the 1960s--and highlights the continued relevance of Terkel's work in our polarized times. Now, over fifty years later, Melissa Harris and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Schmich have created the remarkable Division Street Revisited podcast, coming in January 2025, in which they have found and interviewed descendants of Terkel's original subjects in seven rich episodes. The result is a moving and thought-provoking intergenerational conversation. Schmich's foreword to the reissue highlights the evolution of the themes and issues Terkel explored. The extraordinary podcast--and the new edition of Division Street--together demonstrate Studs Terkel's prescience and the enduring importance of his work.

Studs Terkel explores the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In this book, a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. As well as the elderly and sick, Terkel uses his talent to draw on the experiences of those who work closely with the dying - paramedics, police, firefighters, doctors and the recently bereaved.

In this unique recreation 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, and writers, 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 Depression affected the lives of those who experienced it firsthand.

This major new work includes more than 40 never-before-published interviews in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian elicits frank, funny, and surprising conversations about the past half century of dramatic arts.

This ';electrifying' collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prizewinning author's ';great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America' (Booklist). Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prize-winning oral historian through his landmark books';The Good War', Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs's best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never been published. P.S. brings together these significant and fascinating writings for the first time. The pieces in P.S. reflect Terkel's wide-ranging interests and travels, as well as his abiding connection to his hometown, Chicago. Here we have a fascinating conversation with James Baldwin, possibly Terkel's finest interview with an author; pieces on the colorful history and culture of Chicago; vivid portraits of Terkel's heroes and cohorts (including an insightful and still timely interview with songwriter Yip Harburg, known for his ';Brother, Can You Spare a Dime'); and the transcript of Terkel's famous broadcast on the Depression, the moving chronicle that would later develop into Hard Times. A fitting postscript to a lifetime of listening, P.S. is a truly Terkelesque display of the author's extraordinary range of talent and the amazing people he spoke to.

Richly entertaining and deeply personal conversations with the masters of stage and screen by the legendary Studs Terkel.

First published in 1970, Studs Terkels bestselling Hard Times has been called a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit (Saturday Review) and an invaluable record (The New York Times). With his trademark grace and compassion, Terkel evokes a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were destitute: politicians, businessmen, artists and writers, racketeers, speakeasy operators, strikers, impoverished farmers, people who were just kids, and those who remember losing a fortune.Now, in a handsome new illustrated edition, a selection of Studss unforgettable interviews are complemented by images from another rich documentary trove of the Depression experience: Farm Security Administration photographs from the Library of Congress. Interspersed throughout the text of Hard Times, these breathtaking photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Jack Delano, and others expand the human scope of the voices captured in the book, adding a new dimension to Terkels incomparable volume. Hard Times is the perfect introduction to Terkels work for new readers, as well as a beautiful new addition to any Terkel library.

In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city. Chicago was home to the country's first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith) and the car radio (Motorola), and the first major American city to elect a woman (Jane Byrne) and then an African American man (Harold Washington) as mayor. Its literary and journalistic history is just as dazzling, and includes Nelson Algren, Mike Royko, and Sara Paretsky. From Al Capone to the street riots during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, Chicago, in the words of Studs Terkel, ';hasas they used to whisper of the town's fast womana reputation.' Chicago was also home to Terkel, the Pulitzer Prizewinning oral historian, who moved to Chicago in 1922 as an eight-year-old and who would make it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of ninety-six. This book is a splendid evocation of Studs Terkel's hometown in all its gloryand all its imperfection.

With a foreword by Robert Coles and a preface by Calvin Trillin.The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his wonderful original introductions to each book. Featuring selections from American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "e;The Good War, The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, and Working, this "e;greatest hits"e; volume is a treasury of Terkel's most memorable subjects that will delight his many lifelong fans and provide a perfect introduction for those who have not yet experienced the joy of reading Studs Terkel. "e;An informal epic of Terkel's near century with a cinematic vividness that tells you more than a shelf of standard history books."e; Entertainment Weekly

America's most inspirational voices, in their own words: ';If you're looking for a reason to act and dream again, you'll find it in the pages of this book' (Chicago Tribune). Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed journalist's most elusive subjects: Hope. Where does it come from? What are its essential qualities? How do we sustain it in the darkest of times? An alternative, more personal chronicle of the ';American century,' Hope Dies Last is a testament to the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today. A former death row inmate who served nearly twenty years for a crime he did not commit discusses his never-ending fight for justice. Tom Hayden, author of The Port Huron Statement, contemplates the legacy of 1960s student activism. Liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith reflects on the enduring problem of corporate malfeasance. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion to the retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who advocate for a better world. With grace and warmth, Terkel's subjects express their secret hopes and dreams. Taken together, this collection of interviews tells an inspiring story of optimism and persistence, told in voices that resonate with the eloquence of conviction. ';The value of Hope Dies Last lies not in what it teaches readers about its narrow subject, but in the fascinating stories it reveals, and the insight it allows into the vast range of human experience.' The A.V. Club ';Very Terkelesqueby now the man requires an adjective of his own.' Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Review of Books ';An American treasure.' Cornel West

The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: ';It's the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.' The New York Times In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller Working, turns to the ultimate human experience: death. Here a wide range of people address the unknowable culmination of our lives, the possibilities of an afterlife, and their impact on the way we live, with memorable grace and poignancy. Included in this remarkable treasury are Terkel's interviews with such famed figures as Kurt Vonnegut and Ira Glass as well as with ordinary people, from policemen and firefighters to emergency health workers and nurses, who confront death in their everyday lives. Whether a Hiroshima survivor, a death-row parolee, or a woman who emerged from a two-year coma, these interviewees offer tremendous eloquence as they deal with a topic many are reluctant to discuss openly and freely. Only Terkel, whom Cornel West called ';an American treasure,' could have elicited such honesty from people reflecting on the lives they have led and what lies before them still. ';Extraordinary... a work of insight, wisdom, and freshness.' The Seattle Times

Bestselling oral history of what it was like to age in the 20th century - told by 74 disparate voices, all of whom lived through practically all of it, woven into one astonishing tapestry. Superb oral history from the undisputed master of the genre.

Concerned with the "American Dream", the author of the text discusses the ideals and aspirations with businessmen enamoured of success, farm kids dreaming of the city, city boys determined to get out, the Boston Brahmin and KKK members.

An autobiography of Studs Terkel, an American oral historian, which mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr to Federico Fellini, the author captured their voices for posterity.

Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, this book chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race and personal history. It is an interesting survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century.