Working - by Studs Terkel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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").<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: "Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking." --<i>The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/><i>A National Book Award Finalist and </i>New York Times<i> bestseller</i> <p/> Studs Terkel's classic oral history <i>Working</i> 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 <i>New York Times</i> journalist Adam Cohen (<i>Forbes</i>). <p/> "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." --<i>Business Week</i> <p/> "The talk in <i>Working</i> is good talk--earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience." --<i>The Washington Post</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of <i>Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession</i>; <i>Division Street: America</i>, <i>Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century</i>; <i>Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times</i>; <i>The Good War: An Oral History of World War II</i>; <i>Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do</i>; <i>The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century</i>; <i>American Dreams: Lost and Found</i>; <i>The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater</i>; <i>Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression</i>; <i>Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith</i>; <i>Giants of Jazz</i>; <i>Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times</i>; <i>And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey</i>; <i>Touch and Go: A Memoir</i>; <i>P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening</i>; and <i>Studs Terkel's Chicago</i>, 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.<br>
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