A collection of interviews with working people in a wide variety of occupations.

Presents 100 interviews with a cross section of American people, both famous and non-famous, who discuss their personal lives and ambitions.

A sort of masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece.... A most remarkable book. Oliver Sacks, bestselling author of Awakenings. At age ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers us a memoir that capturing the spirit of the man himself is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun. Terkel takes us back to his early childhood in 1920s Chicago, recalls his early experiences...

Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

"A summing up of the best of Terkel."--Herbert Mitgang, "Doubletake" "The Studs Terkel Reader," originally published under the title "My American Century," collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work. Featuring selections from "American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War," The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race," and "Working," this "greatest hits"...

Interviews with a wide range of American people during the 1980s.

An account of the lives of ordinary Americans, at home and abroad, during World War Two.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

A collection of eighty essays exploring the personal beliefs of a diverse assortment of contributors, both famous and unknown, who reflect on their faith, the evolution of their beliefs, and how they express them.