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The Good War: An Oral History of WWII

The Good War: An Oral History of WWII

by StudsTerkel (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

With an unequalled ear for the voices of ordinary Americans, Terkel dramatically yet intimately captures the responses to the war from sea-plane pilots and Chicago street kids to journalists, architects, a mountain woman, policemen, film makers, a paper-mill worker, cabdrivers and a host of others. 'Deeply moving and profoundly important' Alan Brinkley, Boston Globe

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 608
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 15 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 1842122371
ISBN 13: 9781842122372
Book Overview: 'Terkel's riveting books are history raw (rather than cooked) the spoken voices, sharp and unsentimental, quite unclouded by the vapors of epic self-aggrandizement or the bitters of cynicism' Simon Schama The Good War' is...evocative, inspiring, depressing, painful, and so much besides that readers will experience emotions they didn't know they had Cleveland Plain Dealer 'Incontestably one of the great human documents of all time' Norman Corwin 'Tremendously compelling...In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between two covers' New York Times

Author Bio
Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel was born in 1912 and grew up in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 and from Chicago Law School in 1934. He has been an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a sports commentator, a television master of ceremonies, and a radio host. He has travelled all over the world doing on-the-spot interviews. He still broadcasts daily in Chicago.