Studs Terkel

From interviews with a Hiroshima survivor, AIDS caseworker, death-row parolee, police, firefighters, emergency health workers, doctors, nurses, writers, undertakers, clergy, etc., etc.

Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a look at how work fits into American life.

Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books-"The Good War," Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs's best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never been published. P. S. brings together these significant and deeply enjoyable writings for the first time. The pieces in P. S. reflect...

The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II.

Forty-eight of Studs Terkel's most famous interviews from his hour long radio program on WFMT in Chicago broadcast from 1950-1990's.