Division Street America - Hardcover

Terkel S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394422678 ISBN 13: 9780394422671

Publisher: Random House, 1967

Synopsis

"Division Street: America" is the book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as the country's foremost oral historian, as "more than a writer. . . a national resource," in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith. Indeed, the people in Division Street were so compelling that Terkel revisited many of them for his recent bestseller, Race, showing how their opinions had changed and their prejudices had grown in the intervening decades.

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About the Author:

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession; Division Street: America, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century; Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times; “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II; Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do; The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century; American Dreams: Lost and Found; The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith; Giants of Jazz; Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times; And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey; Touch and Go: A Memoir; P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening; and Studs Terkel’s Chicago, 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.

Review:

Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates.” The New York Times

Totally absorbing.” &mdashThe New Yorker

Reports not only multitudes divided, but the division in ourselves . . . as exciting as a good novel.” &mdashNelson Algren

A cross-section of all that is contained in humanity.” Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0394422678
• ISBN 13: 9780394422671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 409