Terkel, Studs

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

A variety of people who lived through the Great Depression describe their memories of that time.

Presents interviews with a wide variety of people in which they discuss death and share their personal beliefs about the possibility of an afterlife; and includes conversations with people whose jobs bring them into contact with death on a regular basis.

A treasury of approximately fifty interviews with ordinary Americans drawn from eight earlier works by Terkel published between 1967 and 1995, providing a chronicle of the country from the 1920s through the 1990s.

A variety of people who lived through the Great Depression describe their memories of that time.

Brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians who have made major contributions to the development of this form of music.

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