Studs Terkel

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1997)

I really enjoyed this book. I read it very slowly, bits at a time, all out of order. I purchased it the week I quit my job at the bookstore, with my employee discount, and got a slow start on it. As the months drifted by, and I started a new job that I enjoyed much more, I kept coming back, a few...

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (2005)

Hard Times was first published in 1970 and contains interviews collected during the late 1960s. Over the span of several years, Terkel seems to have questioned anyone and everyone with whom he came into contact about their memories from the 1930s. He listened to and recorded the words of men an...

Touch and Go: A Memoir (2007)