A Memoir. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Studs Terkel's eclectic life finally comes alive in these extraordinary memoirs.

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening.

A Memoir. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Studs Terkel's eclectic life finally comes alive in these extraordinary memoirs.

New paperback edition of the groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name.

Studs Terkel's beautifully illustrated, classic collection of thirteen portraits of America's Jazz legends.

Film and Theater. A personal selection of the best interviews by America's much-loved pre-eminent oral historian.

Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on America's greatest composer, the Duke himself.

For Terkel, hope is born of activism, engagement, and a stubborn determination to improve the world. In Hope Dies Last, he talks with a wide range of politically-engaged Americans, musing on fundamental questions: where does hope spring from? How can it sustain us? How does one instil it in others? As well as talking to well-known figures, including Paul Tibbets (pilot of the plane that dropped ..

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Lost and found, originally published in 1980, this is a classic work of oral history that provides an extraordinary and moving picture of everyday American lives.

An oral history of the Great Depression, new paperback edition.

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 Will the Circle be Unbroken? , a wide range of people address the final experience and its impact on the present in which we live.

An account of the author's memories of the Hiroshima bomb and its aftermath. Snider explores her struggle to find meaning in the absurd reality of war and the dawn of the atomic age. Coping with depression, guilt over her mother's death, and her fear of cancer are detailed.

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How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession - a rare and revealing look at how people in America really feel about race. New paperback edition of this classic oral history.

Growing Up in the Twentieth Century.