Studs Terkel - Bibliography

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

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Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

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Touch and Go: A Memoir

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Touch and Go: A Memoir

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Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

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Touch and Go: Library Edition

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And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

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Division Street: America

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The book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as this country's foremost oral historian is a unique portrait of America at a time of change and hope.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2006, Hardcover - 1993

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Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration

Studs Terkel; Timuel D. Black

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Voices Of Our Time

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Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

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America's foremost oral historian tackles the most difficult and complicated issue in America today -- race relations -- by interviewing nearly a hundred blacks and whites. The result is a riveting and deeply moving -- and frequently provocative -- look at our country.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, Hardcover - 1992

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And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

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Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times

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The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre.
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of 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.
For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-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 hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction.
AUTHOR: Studs Terkel is the author of eleven books of oral history. He is 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.

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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

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“IT’S THE UNGUARDED VOICES HE PRESENTS THAT STAY WITH YOU. . . . Terkel’s interviews may not allay fears about death. But reading them certainly encourages life while we have it.”
–The New York Times

Whether it’s Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.

Here, in the voices of people both esteemed and unknown, are wise words, meaningful memories, and compassionate predictions about the experience of life’s end–and what may come after. A grad student explains how her two-year coma convinced her of the existence of reincarnation . . . A Hiroshima survivor reconciles her painful memories with the stoicism of her Japanese culture . . . Actress Uta Hagan expresses how her art is her religion and will be her legacy . . . Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler relives his World War II ordeal, after a torpedo left him in a lifeboat among injured and dying comrades . . . An AIDS counselor reveals why healthy gay men may require the most crucial psychological help . . . and a retired firefighter admits he “never felt so alive” as when he was doing his dangerous job.

From the sheer physical facts to the emotional realities to spiritual speculations, all aspects of death are openly expressed in this wonderful work, the stirring culmination of Studs Terkel’s brilliant career.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, Hardcover - 2001

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Giants of Jazz

Studs Terkel; Milly Hawk Daniel

A baker's dozen of intimate portraits of jazz legends by the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz aficionado.
In Giants of Jazz, bestselling author and master storyteller Studs Terkel sketches the lives of thirteen giants who have made American jazz what it is today. Terkel—a lifelong fan and friend of many of these legends—uses firsthand interviews with the artists to bring to life the human stories behind the music. First published in 1957 and now reissued in a handsome, illustrated gift edition, Giants of Jazz is a master interviewer's evocation of the mythic heroes of this uniquely American music form.

13 Jazz Greats covered in Giants of Jazz:
Louis Armstrong • Count Basie • Bix Beiderbecke • John Coltrane • Duke Ellington • Dizzy Gillespie • Benny Goodman • Woody Herman • Billie Holiday • Joe Oliver • Charlie Parker • Bessie Smith • Fats Waller

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1992, 1975

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Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With the People Who Make Them

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The Pulitzer Prize-winner talks to masters of stage and screen in "Terkel's latest richly entertaining oral history" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback. The Spectator collects Studs Terkel's "knowledgeable and perceptive" (Library Journal) interviews with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. This "disarming, invigorating look at show biz" (Publishers Weekly) presents the actors, directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who have created the dramatic works of the past half-century. These include Buster Keaton, Francois Truffaut, Carol Channing, Tennessee Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pauline Kael, and Ian McKellen. And, because Studs knows his subjects' work intimately, he asks precisely the questions that elicit the most revealing responses. These are frank, funny, often moving, always surprising dialogues. As Roger Ebert says, "No one else captures conversation the way Terkel does."

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Working

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999, Softcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1974

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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

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A reissue of Terkel's classic work, with a new introduction by the author.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Softcover - 1984

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Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Turkel Interviews

Studs Terkel; Studs Turkel

Studs Terkel's radio program, based in Chicago, gave extensive exposure to a variety of people from all walks of life through incisive and entertaining hour-long interviews which drew out the personality and achievement of each guest. Terkel was a master of the form and has had many imitators since. This audiobook samples interviews from the '50s through the '90s.

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The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Made Them

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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.

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My American Century

Studs Terkel; Ww Norton & Co New Pr

Now, in a pantheon of "ordinary" Americans, Terkel collects the most memorable interviews from each of his eight classic works. From Kid Pharaoh, the con man of "Division Street", to Tom Patrick, the heroic fireman of "Working", to C.P. Ellis, the former Ku Klux Klansman of "American Dreams", this book offers a treasury of Terkel's best that will delight those who have read his books and provide a perfect introduction for Americans who have not yet had the pleasure.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998

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The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two

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The first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book with a new Preface by the author. "As in "Hard Times" and "Working", this master interviewer again creates a turbulent epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived it. . . . A vivid resurrection of a lost time".--"Newsday".

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1984

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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who'Ve Lived It

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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).

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Other editions: 1995, Hardcover - 1995

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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who¼Ve Lived It

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