<div>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: &ldquo;The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). &ldquo;The Good War&rdquo; is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter&rsquo;s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called &ldquo;a splendid epic history&rdquo; of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. &ldquo;Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel&rsquo;s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.&rdquo; &mdash;People</div>

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"The Good War"

<div>This &ldquo;electrifying&rdquo; collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America&rdquo; (Booklist). Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prize-winning oral historian through his landmark books&mdash;&ldquo;The Good War&rdquo;, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s finest interview with an author; pieces on the colorful history and culture of Chicago; vivid portraits of Terkel&rsquo;s heroes and cohorts (including an insightful and still timely interview with songwriter Yip Harburg, known for his &ldquo;Brother, Can You Spare a Dime&rdquo;); and the transcript of Terkel&rsquo;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&rsquo;s extraordinary range of talent and the amazing people he spoke to.</div>

P.S.

<div>From the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and &ldquo;a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit&rdquo; (Saturday Review). In this &ldquo;invaluable record&rdquo; 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). &ldquo;Hard Times doesn&rsquo;t &lsquo;render&rsquo; the time of the depression&mdash;it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Arthur Miller &ldquo;Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsweek &ldquo;Open Studs Terkel&rsquo;s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.&rdquo; &mdash;The National Observer</div>

Hard Times

<div>America&rsquo;s most inspirational voices, in their own words: &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re looking for a reason to act and dream again, you&rsquo;ll find it in the pages of this book&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed journalist&rsquo;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 &ldquo;American century,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;The A.V. Club &ldquo;Very Terkelesque&mdash;by now the man requires an adjective of his own.&rdquo; &mdash;Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Review of Books &ldquo;An American treasure.&rdquo; &mdash;Cornel West</div>

Hope Dies Last

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning historian talks with some of twentieth century&rsquo;s most iconic musicians&mdash;&ldquo;Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show &ldquo;The Wax Museum,&rdquo; presenting Chicago&rsquo;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&rsquo;s conversations with some of the greatest musicians of the past century, And They All Sang is &ldquo;a tribute to music&rsquo;s universality and power&rdquo; (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, &ldquo;the terms &lsquo;interview&rsquo; or &lsquo;oral history&rsquo; don&rsquo;t begin to do justice to what Terkel achieves in these conversations, which are at once wildly ambitious and as casual as can be.&rdquo; Whether discussing Enrico Caruso&rsquo;s nervousness on stage with opera diva Edith Mason or the Beatles&rsquo; 1966 encounter in London with revered Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, &ldquo;Terkel&rsquo;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&rdquo; (The New York Times). &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;[Terkel&rsquo;s] expertise is evident on every page, whether debating the harmonic structure of the spirituals or discerning the subtleties of Keith Jarrett&rsquo;s piano technique . . . As ever, he is the most skillful of interviewers.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;What makes And They All Sang a rousing success isn&rsquo;t just Terkel&rsquo;s phenomenal range and broad knowledge, it&rsquo;s his passionate love of the music and his deep humanity.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle</div>

And They All Sang

<div>A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: &ldquo;Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel&rsquo;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 &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; and enduring portrait of people&rsquo;s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;Business Week &ldquo;The talk in Working is good talk&mdash;earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

Working

<div>The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.&rdquo; &mdash;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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;an American treasure,&rdquo; could have elicited such honesty from people reflecting on the lives they have led and what lies before them still. &ldquo;Extraordinary . . . a work of insight, wisdom, and freshness.&rdquo; &mdash;The Seattle Times</div>

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

<div>This memoir by the oral historian and Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Good War is &ldquo;a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece&rdquo; (Oliver Sacks). Chosen as a Best Book of the Year in 2007 by the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and Playboy, Studs Terkel&rsquo;s memoir Touch and Go is &ldquo;history from a highly personal point of view, by one who has helped make it&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Terkel takes us through his childhood and into his early experiences&mdash;as a law student during the Depression, and later as an actor on both radio and the stage&mdash;offering a brilliant and often hilarious portrait of Chicago in the 1920s and &rsquo;30s. Describing his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War II, his involvement with progressive politics during the McCarthy era, as well as his career as an interviewer and oral historian, Touch and Go is a testament to Terkel&rsquo;s &ldquo;generosity of spirit, sense of social justice and commitment to capture on his ever present tape recorder the voices of those who otherwise would not be heard&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). It is a brilliant lifetime achievement from the man the Washington Post has called &ldquo;the most distinguished oral historian of our time.&rdquo; &ldquo;The master storyteller tells his own story, as no one else can, irresistibly.&rdquo; &mdash;Garry Wills</div>

Touch and Go

<div>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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;has&mdash;as they used to whisper of the town&rsquo;s fast woman&mdash;a reputation.&rdquo; Chicago was also home to Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning 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&rsquo;s hometown in all its glory&mdash;and all its imperfection.</div>

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Books By Studs Terkel (9 Books)

"The Good War"

P.S.

Hard Times

Hope Dies Last

And They All Sang

Working

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Touch and Go

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