This is the World War II info that you won't find in the history books. If you've read any of Terkel's books, you know what to expect: an expansive cross-section of people giving their perspectives on the topic at hand. It sounds so simple, but it isn't. I wish our military and civilian leaders woul...
this is a fairly legendary work, and I was pleasantly surprised to see German accounts and Japanese oral histories included in what the title would seem to suggest is part of that Brokaw agit-prop genre, 'Greatest Generation.' d'ya know statistical analyses has been carried out on WW2 combat medal c...
I thought I'd remembered Studs Terkel, in another book "Working", interviewing a somewhat troubled rodeo clown who was a flamethrower in Vietnam. But no, that was someone else's book about the Meaning of Life. So it´s also been many years since reading The Good War, but I can´t remember war being de...
A masterfully organized relating of oral anecdotes from Great Depression America. The author collected them all himself and they range from touching to depressing to amusing to astounding.
This book was amazing! I learned so much information, and even more importantly, got a great perspective on the war and the times surrounding it. It has so many interviews from so many different kinds of people. I'm lending this book to one of my friends in a hurry.
3 starsI had to read this for a college class, but it's not something I would have picked out for myself.
3 starsI had to read this for a college class, but it's not something I would have picked out for myself.
It was the description of the waitress on the job that got me, the description she gave of how she loved to set the dishes on the table so quietly that she did not disturb the guests to her restaurant. I fell in love with this passage. This book became one of my first entry books into what has becom...
"The Captain Has Bad Dreams," a story of a captain overseeing sentencings of criminals, is still one of my favorite stories of all time. This book, and Algren's others, really sort of blew me away, in that, rather than sentimentalizing the poor -- and I think Algren said this in an interview once --...
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