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A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast When Division Street, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, was published in 1967 (it was commissioned by New Press founding director André Schiffrin), Terkel's reputation as America's foremost oral historian was established overnight. Approaching Chicagoans...

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Hope Dies Last will live a long, long time in the memory of everyone who reads it. Like all of Studs Terkel's work, this book glows with human warmth and an unquenchable passion for justice' Barbara Ehrenreich

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian talks with some of twentieth century's most iconic musicians-"Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show "The Wax Museum, " presenting Chicago's music fans with his inimitable take on music of all kinds, from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk, and rock....

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For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host--himself an octogenarian--has interviewed several very different men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. Some are powerful celebrities (Maggie Kuhn of the Grey Panthers, economist John Kenneth Galbraith), others are obscure people in small towns. Together they represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout this century and th...

Studs Terkel's fascinating account of Race from many and varied points of view.

Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression.

The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: "It's the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you." -The New York Times   In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller Working, turns to the ultimate human experience: death. Here a wide range of people address the unknowable culmination of our lives, the possibilities of an af...

This is vintage Terkel - interviewing forty of the greatest and most deeply human musical figures of our time' Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Pulitzer Prize winning oral historian Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago, presenting listeners with his inimitable take on a wide range of music. His latest work of oral history shows readers this completely different side of the brilliant and far-ranging musicologist.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel's timeless portraits of America's jazz legends, for readers of all ages. Studs Terkel's first book, "Giants of Jazz, " is the master interviewer's unique tribute to America's jazz greats, now available in an affordable paperback edition with the original illustrations and discography. The thirteen profiles in this "luminous" ("Jazzwise") collection weave together stories of the individual jazz ...