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    The Studs Terkel Interviews

    Studs Terkel

    The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater collects the Pulitzer Prizewinning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Originally...
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    Studs Terkel's Chicago

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    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

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    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

    Heather Bourbeau

    "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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    Lessons to Learn

    Molly Ness

    This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools...
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    Working

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    Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from...
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    American Dreams

    Studs Terkel

    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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    The Black Jacobins Reader

    Charles Forsdick

    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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  • W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation
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    W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation

    Jean-Jacques Malo

    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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    Listening

    Jonathan Cott

    A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings  “All I really need to do is simply ask a question,” Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds...
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    Division Street

    Studs Terkel

    Division Street, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and...
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  • To Be Me To Be Me
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    To Be Me

    Michael James Kaiser

    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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  • The Hellyer Say The Hellyer Say
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    The Hellyer Say

    Art Hellyer

    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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  • Single in Southeast Texas Single in Southeast Texas
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    Single in Southeast Texas

    Gretchen Johnson

    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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    Race

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    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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    Stay Dead

    Natalie Shapero

    *2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist*In Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.The politics of labor and...
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  • Chicago's Maxwell Street Chicago's Maxwell Street
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    Chicago's Maxwell Street

    Lori Grove

    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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  • A People's History of Chicago
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    A People's History of Chicago

    Kevin Coval

    Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world...
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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

    David A. Taylor

    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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    Waste

    Catherine Coleman Flowers

    Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerableA...
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    Milked

    Ruth Conniff

    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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    Prine on Prine

    Holly Gleason

    "As close to an autobiography as we're going to get from John Prine, Prine on Prine captures the inimitable, whimsical voice of one of our greatest songwriters . . .Nashville legend Holly Gleason...
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    Refugee High

    Elly Fishman

    Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation“A wondrous tapestry of stories, of young...
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  • Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins
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    Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins

    Elizabeth Stone

    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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  • An Ordinary White
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    An Ordinary White

    Roediger, David

    A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race...
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    Hardly Working

    Roger Day Bain

    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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  • Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

    Heda Margolius Kovly

    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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