The Good War - by Studs Terkel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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".<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>).</b> <p/> "<i>The Good War</i>"<i> </i>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'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 <i>People</i> magazine has called "a splendid epic history" of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. <p/> "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." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel's book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/> "A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing." --<i>People</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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