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    Studs Terkel's Chicago

    In the tradition of E. B. White's bestselling Here Is New York, Chicago is a tribute to the "Second City"-part history, part memoir, and 100% Studs Terkel-infused with anecdotes, memories, and...
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    Hard Times

    First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's Hard Times has been called "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Saturday Review) and "an invaluable record" (New York Times). With grace and...
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  • Daily Palm Castings Daily Palm Castings
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    Daily Palm Castings

    "Daily Palm Castings" is a collection of poems, profiling people in often overlooked professions. Inspired by Lyle Lovett's "Pontiac", Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire", and the work of Studs Terkel,...
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    The Black Jacobins Reader
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    The Black Jacobins Reader

    Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In...
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  • American Dreams American Dreams
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    American Dreams

    In this unique look at one of our most pervasive national myths, Studs Terkel persuades an extraordinary range of Americans to articulate their version of "The American Dream." Beginning with an...
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  • W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation
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    W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation

    W. D. Ehrhart, named by Studs Terkel as "the poet of the Vietnam War," has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics and has been a preeminent voice on the Vietnam War for decades. Revered...
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  • The Hellyer Say The Hellyer Say
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    The Hellyer Say

    THE HELLYER SAY is a collection of 18 autobiographical essays by Chicago radio and television pioneer and legend Art Hellyer. Art's career has spanned more than 55 years, and his stories, hilarious...
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    Race

    First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. Offering a rare and revealing look at how people in America truly...
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  • To Be Me To Be Me
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    To Be Me

    Imagine a road trip. Harry Chapin at the wheel. Emily Dickinson rides shotgun. The old VW van has room enough for Carl Sandburg and Studs Terkel. Jammed way back, buffeted by guitars, backpacks, and...
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  • Single in Southeast Texas Single in Southeast Texas
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    Single in Southeast Texas

    Gretchen Johnson gives a sensitive and humorous account of dating in Southeast Texas. Paige, the heroine of the novel, is a young, recently divorced transplant from Minnesota and a professor of...
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  • Chicago's Maxwell Street Chicago's Maxwell Street
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    Chicago's Maxwell Street

    I know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble in January. . . .His face is that of a man terribly glad. . .that God made fish, and customers...
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    This Place on Third Avenue
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    This Place on Third Avenue

    A collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed New Yorker writer captures the off-beat, quirky, and amusing characters that he encountered at Tim and Joe Costello's Irish...
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  • Soul of a People Soul of a People
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    Soul of a People

    Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from...
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    Japan at War

    A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or...
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    Milked

    A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them100% DemocracyWinner of the...
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  • Christmas in Illinois
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    Christmas in Illinois

    ''Christmas seems to have been always with us. It is that time of year when we expect good cheer and goodwill, a moment's respite from the year's vicissitudes, solace during difficult times,'' writes...
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  • Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins
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    Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins

    When someone says, at a holiday dinner table, "Oh, those Lawrence cousins lose control all the time," or "the Davises always had more talent than luck," you can be sure there's a lesson being passed...
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  • Heather and the Jabberwocky Heather and the Jabberwocky
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    Heather and the Jabberwocky

    Heather and the JabberwockyAn Amorous Journey into the Mythical Antiquity of NowA vengeful stalker tracks lovely Heather mercilessly from Hong Kong to France to Georgia as her artist husband fends...
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  • Hardly Working Hardly Working
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    Hardly Working

    Hardly Working is a provocative, at times comical look at both the pursuit and the avoidance of work by one who wasn't sure what he wanted to be when he grew up, who decides to "retire" in the decade...
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  • Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself
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    Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself

    Alec Wilder wrote songs and lyrics of unsurpassed beauty and originality, and his work won the respect and admiration of such important musical figures as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Mitch Miller,...
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  • Doctor Bob Doctor Bob
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    Doctor Bob

    With his life imperiled by the Mafia, Dr. Bob earns his keep by treating addicted Clairvoyants who fear they've lost their ability to reach souls in the hereafter - a rambunctious character's story...
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

    Heda Margolius Kovly (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into...
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  • The Yesterlings The Yesterlings
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    The Yesterlings

    The YesterlingsSecrets Among the Wild Horses of Sable IslandSeeking adventure, Argentine dandy Balboa Brontine charms his way onto an expedition to film a remote Canadian island famed for wild horses...
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  • The Trevor Truculence The Trevor Truculence
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    The Trevor Truculence

    The Trevor TruculenceAmorous Adventures Among the Phoenician Antiquitiesin the South of SpainThis novel thrust an ancient Spanish fishing village that dates from the Phoenician era about 800 BC...
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    The Junk Yard Solution

    The Junk Yard SolutionAdventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost CausesAs the rest of the world goes wild over smart phones, an odd assortment of eclectic characters hunkers down near Lebanon,...
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