Synopses & Reviews
For over thirty years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative, and moving oral histories. Now, in a pantheon of 'ordinary' Americans, Terkel collects the most memorable interviews from each of his eight classic works.
From Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street, to Tom Patrick, the heroic fireman of Working, to C.P. Ellis, the former Ku Klux Klansman of American Dreams, My American Century also brings together Terkel's introductions to each of his earlier books, which sum up the larger pictures running through the stories told by a wide range of Americans.
Review
"There is no one in the world who can listen like Studs Terkel....He has heard, he reflects back to us, out deepest feelings." Oliver Sacks