Studs Terkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 380408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Studs Terkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Studs |
| FAMILY NAME | Terkel |
| SIGNATURE | TERKEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Last Words of the Executed
Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour-and only they can be sure that their last words will be recorded for posterity. Last Words of the Executed presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. The product of seven years of extensive re…
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel presents an extraordinary documentary of the 20th century, captured with a haunting voice and cadence that only he could achieve. Wise, contemplative, and wondrous, Coming of Age is Terkel in high form--compassionate, generous, always insightful--(a) kind of national prose poem, a chorus of cacophonous voices offering a jagged, emotionally charged portrait of our times (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
Foster Durr is the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, and she was raised in Birmingham during the early years of this century. She attended Wellesley for two years, until her family's circumstances made it impossible for her to continue. Virginia's sister Josephine married Hugo Black; and in 1926 married a young lawyer named Clifford Durr. The Durrs moved to Washington shortly after Roosevelt's inauguration, and Clifford was one of the bright y…
Chacun sa guerre, Histoire de la seconde guerre mondiale
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Gagner sa croute
Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families
The School of Sisyphus: On Teaching the Meaning of Work
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They feel about about What They Do
The School of Sisyphus: On Teaching the Meaning of Work
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They feel about about What They Do
Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families
Gagner sa croute
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
Foster Durr is the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, and she was raised in Birmingham during the early years of this century. She attended Wellesley for two years, until her family's circumstances made it impossible for her to continue. Virginia's sister Josephine married Hugo Black; and in 1926 married a young lawyer named Clifford Durr. The Durrs moved to Washington shortly after Roosevelt's inauguration, and Clifford was one of the bright y…
Chacun sa guerre, Histoire de la seconde guerre mondiale
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel presents an extraordinary documentary of the 20th century, captured with a haunting voice and cadence that only he could achieve. Wise, contemplative, and wondrous, Coming of Age is Terkel in high form--compassionate, generous, always insightful--(a) kind of national prose poem, a chorus of cacophonous voices offering a jagged, emotionally charged portrait of our times (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)
Last Words of the Executed
Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour-and only they can be sure that their last words will be recorded for posterity. Last Words of the Executed presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. The product of seven years of extensive re…
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Physics (2 works)