RYERSON, JIMMY McPARTLAND, CESAR CHAVEZ AND MANY MORE LESSER KNOWN INDIVIDUALS. LANDON, SENATOR RUSSELL LONG, SAUL ALINSKY, JAMES A. WOOD, MYRNA LOY, PAUKINE KAEL (TWO INTERVIEWS), ALF M. THERE ARE 162 INTERVIEWS IN THE BOOK INCLUDING THOSE INTERVIEWS WITH NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS SUCH AS W. STUDS TERKEL HAS BOLDLY SIGHED THE BOOK ON THE FIRST FREE END PAGE WITH A BLACK FELT PEN AS FOLLOWS "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, STUDS TERKEL." THIS IS THE THIRD BOOK BY STUDS TERKEL AND IT FOLLOWS THE PREVIOUS BOOKS WITH INTERVIEWS AS THE MAJOR THEME. THERE IS MINIMAL SHELF WEAR OF THE TOP OF THE SPINE OF THE PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET THAT IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER.
RANDOM HOUSE, OWNERS OF PANTHEON BOOKS, PRINTINGS AFTER 1970 NEVER STARTED WITH A NUMBER 1. THE PUBLISHER'S NUMBERS 9876543 INDICATES THAT THE BOOK IS A SECOND PRINTIING OF THE FIRST EDITION. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out … Read a page, any page. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book. “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression-it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.
The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. here we are again In this invaluable record of one. In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. BUY Amazon Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Fifty years after Studs Terkel published Hard Times. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).
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