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Description: 363 p. 2 fold. Plates, 2 maps. 25 cm. Subjects: Social surveys --Illinois --Chicago. Cities and towns --United States --Case studies. Chicago (Ill. ) --Social life and customs
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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.
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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
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
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0713900288
- ISBN 13 9780713900286
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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